Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham), a shy Co. Clare girl, and her exuberant flatmate Baba (Lynn Redgrave) explore the temptations of Dublin city life. Peter Finch glowers handsomely as the urbane, middle-aged writer with whom Kate embarks on a doomed affair. By turns sweet, sensitive, humorous, and grim in the British realist mode of the 1960s, Desmond Davis’s picture makes great use of Dublin locations – Bewley’s, Greene’s Bookshop, the Four Provinces Ballroom, and the Great South Wall. Tushingham’s guileless performance confirmed her status as British cinema’s favourite quirky ingénue in this adaptation by Edna O’Brien of her autobiographical novel The Lonely Girl.

The screening will be introduced by Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, UCD.

Presented by the IFI and the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.