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In tribute to Oscar Wilde, Micheál MacLiammóir presents a vibrant kaleidoscope of Dublin’s people and places. This film was made by Irish Jewish filmmaker Norman Cohen who found success in the UK with a series of comedies including Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Stand up Virgin Soldiers and Dad’s Army.

PART 1

The film captures a bustling clothes market, colourful characters on the streets of Dublin, Oscar Wilde’s House at Merrion Square, the Gate, The Rotunda, Handel’s Fishamble Street, gravediggers in Glasnevin, Guinness’s Brewery, and the Brazen Head pub.

Dir. Norman Cohen. 25 mins, Ireland, 1974, Digital

PART 2

We encounter women in Moore Street, street-games on Henrietta Street, The King’s Inn, the Royal Canal, men at the Saint Vincent de Paul Homeless Shelter, Mountjoy and Kilmainham and MacLiammoir’s recital of “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”.

Dir. Norman Cohen. 25 mins, Ireland, 1974, Digital

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.

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