The IFI and Penguin Random House celebrate 30 years of Paula Spencer, and the publication day of Roddy Doyle’s new novel, The Women Behind the Door, with a screening of Family: Paula.

FAMILY: PAULA

We first met Paula (Ger Ryan) in this ground-breaking television series about a working-class Dublin family living under the oppressive regime of abusive, alcoholic Charlo (Seán McGinley). Paula, his emotionally and physically battered wife and mother of his children, attempts to reclaim her identity and embark on a life without her husband.

Film info: 50 mins, Ireland, 1994,  Digital

Following the screening, Fintan O’Toole (Irish Times) will host a conversation with Roddy Doyle and Ger Ryan about the film and about The Women Behind the Door, in which Paula, now 66 – a mother, grandmother, widow, addict and survivor – cannot to escape the ghosts of the past.

All ticket holders will receive a copy of the book.

 With thanks to RTÉ Archives.