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PROGRAMME ONE
TOP OF THE MORNING
This tourist-style film promoted sale of Irish Sweepstake Tickets at a time when direct advertising of the tickets had been banned in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Following a sequence on the Sweepstakes Draw, it visits a series of unusual locations such as the Old Spa and Pump Room in Lucan, a Feis in Navan and St Patrick’s Day celebrations at Castleknock College and College Green.
20 mins, Ireland, 1935, Digital, Black & White

PROGRAMME TWO
BOSSANOVA BLUES
In this graduation film from Kieron J Walsh (When Brendan Met Trudy, The Racer), three young rogues in Blackpool (an Irish ex-prisoner, his cousin, and a mermaid) devise a successful gambling scam before heading to the ferry with their spoils.

Dir. Kieron J Walsh, 27 mins, Ireland, 1992, Digital

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