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Mairéad Farrell: An Unfinished Conversation

MAIRÉAD FARRELL: COMHRÁ NÁR CHRÍOCHNAIGH

    • Director

      Martina Durac

  • Category

    Documentary
    Irish Language

This new documentary from Loopline Film investigates the life and death of Mairéad Farrell who in 1988 was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar along with two other unarmed members of the IRA. Due to her youth, her gender and her stature within the IRA, Farrell was quickly subsumed into the pantheon of Irish republican martyrs. But behind the mythologising and demonisation of the time, there was also a real person who was prepared to kill and die for her beliefs.

Directed by Martina Durac and produced by Vanessa Gildea, this documentary is a conscious act of memory as historian Bríona Nic Dhiarmada (co-producer) revisits her memories in an attempt to make sense of her life and death.

Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

52 minutes, Ireland, 2014

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