Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please check website for screening dates and times.

Irish islands have intrigued filmmakers since cinema began, as our October programme attests.

PROGRAMME ONE

AN ISLAND EVACUATED
British newsreel of the evacuation of Inishark.
2 mins, 1960, Black & White, Digital

INISHEER
A young priest arrives on the island of Inis Oírr and faces the challenge of language, weather and the isolation of island life where there are neither roads, nor motor cars and the schoolchildren are exiled for secondary education to the mainland.
27 mins, 1970, Digital

PROGRAMME TWO

AMHARC EIREANN: EAGRAN 90
Gael Linn’s newsreel shows Inishturk relieved with supplies by helicopter.
2 mins, 1961, Black & White, Digital

ACHILL ISLAND
Life on Achill Island, off County Mayo — shark fishing, shepherding, pottery making, teaching in the school room, running a B&B and socialising by night.
27 mins, 1972, Digital

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn