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This month: more nostalgic snapshots of Ireland (some more accurate than others…)

PROGRAMME 1: HAPPY TO MEET. . . SORRY TO PART
This travelogue, featuring the music of Horslips and borrowing its name from their first album (released in 1972), is a light-hearted whistle-stop tour around Ireland narrated by a fictional British traveller and his jolly Irish host.
FILM INFO: 28 minutes, 1974, Colour

PROGRAMME 2: GLIMPSES OF ERIN 
Though full of Blarney and some distortion (“Galway is a thriving little town in the south of Ireland”), this cinema short is notable for its portraits of noble Irish peasants.
FILM INFO: 8 minutes, 1934, Black and White

IRELAND: A NEW LOOK AT THE EMERALD ISLE 
This educational film for American schoolchildren is both facile and inaccurate. The voice-over asserts: “The port city of Galway lies on the northeast coast” and “Ireland cannot import fuel because of its farm economy”. Prepare to be bemused.
FILM INFO: 18 minutes, 1967, Colour