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

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn