Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at the IFI Box Office, or book
your ticket on our website for a small fee! In celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge.

PROGRAMME ONE

GNÓ GACH ÉINNE

In this dramatised film made for the Department of Health, a health inspector visits a grubby grocery shop and café on Moore Street, run by a slovenly shopkeeper (Nora O’Mahony, later Wanderly Wagon’s Godmother).

Dir. Tony Inglis, 10 mins, Ireland, 1951, Black & White, Irish

SAOL SONA

Made for the National Savings Committee, the film traces the life of a young couple who save up, get married, have children, and face middle age with security.

Dir. George Morrison, 10 mins, Ireland, 1967, Irish

PROGRAMME TWO

POBAL

Pobal is Louis Marcus’s breathtaking panorama of Irish life in 1970. The spirit and character of the Irish
people are observed through the lens of Bob Monks in a dynamic series of rural and urban portraits, accompanied by the rousing music of Seán Ó Riada.

Dir. Louis Marcus, 25 mins, 1970, Irish and English

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.