Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive daily in June. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

PROGRAMME ONE

A SENSE OF POETRY: The Poem as Irony

Part of a Canadian educational series, this visual illustration of the poem ‘The Beggars of Dublin’ by renowned Canadian poet Alden Nowlan follows a visitor to Dublin, as he disembarks from a plane and wanders the streets of Dublin encountering beggars and homeless people along the way.

Dir. Paul Quigley. 12 mins, Canada, 1975, Digital

FAITHFUL DEPARTED

Dublin, Bloomsday 1904 through the photographs
of Robert French.

Dir. Kieran Hickey, 10 mins, Ireland, 1968, Digital, Black & White

PROGRAMME TWO

SEE YOU AT THE PILLAR

This entertaining British-produced tourist film which uses quotations from Dublin’s literary notables (Joyce, O’Casey, and Wilde among them) to illuminate the character of the city. The film features dialogue between an English visitor and a native Dubliner while old rebel songs give the film a humorous, punchy tone.

Dir. Peter Bayliss. 18 mins, UK, 1968, Digital

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn