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Director
Padraig Trehy
Category
FeatureLiterature
A new exploration of the actual and much-fabled friendship between Joyce and Irish tenor, John McCormack. McCormack inspires the character of Shaun the Post in Joyce’s famously ‘unreadable’ final novel Finnegans Wake, in which Joyce portrayed himself as Shaun’s lowly twin brother, Shem. Joyce’s twin obsessions, singing and literary experimentation, flow through the film as the friends’ encounters are reimagined in a variety of early cinematic styles and real and imaginary audio recordings. (Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.)
80 minutes, Ireland, 2015
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: GAEILGE ABÚ! (PROGRAMME 1) 13.10
BÁITE 18.00
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU 15.35
IRISH FOCUS: A VISUAL STORM 18.30
SIRĀT 12.55
SOUND OF FALLING 15.20, 20.10
THE BRIDE! 12.55, 20.30
THE SECRET AGENT 17.00, 20.05
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 14.00 (OC)
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