Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. All tickets are only available in-person.

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, Black & White

PROGRAMME TWO

TRIAL AT TARA

A short but full-blown Hollywood drama where the people of Tara, all druids and non-believers, are pitted against St. Patrick and his followers when he lights a fire on the Hill of Tara. The film ends with a lengthy address to camera by Rosary Crusader, Mayo-born Fr. Patrick Peyton.

28 mins, Ireland, 1953, Black & White

Please see our weekly schedule for screening times.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn