fbpx
Ballymun Summer Festival_featured image 1200 x 628 px
Ballymun

Ballymun Summer Festival

Archive Player
A collection of footage that documents local culture and arts events happening as part of the Ballymun Summer Festival of July 1993. Residents showcase local sports clubs and boxing skills and parades feature local art initiatives and musicians. The festival concludes with fireworks. To view more Ballymun Community Films click here. 
View
Winning the Battle, Still fighting the War_featured image 1200 x 628 px
Ballymun

Winning The Battle, Still Fighting The War

Archive Player
Filmed in the late 1990s (seven years prior to the demolition of the first Ballymun tower), this documentary features members of the Gardaí, health professionals, politicians and residents of Ballymun as they discuss the drugs epidemic in the area. They highlight the need for additional addiction treatment services and increased collaboration between community members and […]
View
Wider Horizons_featured image 1200 x 628 px
Ballymun

Wider Horizons –​ The Ballymun HORIZON programme

Archive Player
When this film was made in the early 1990s, only 37% of Ballymun’s population of 20,000 were in employment, and very few of those were employed in the local area. Office and commercial space was limited within the town, and the communities’ low levels of disposable income presented challenges to entrepreneurs selling non-essential goods and […]
View
A Strategy for Employment_featured image 1200 x 628 px
Ballymun

Ballymun Partnership – A Strategy for Employment

Archive Player
The Ballymun Partnership programme was set up to provide local entrepreneurs with business advice, access to funding resources and support to submit business applications. This short documentary focuses on the programme for the period 1995 to 2000 and features several residents in different stages of opening or running businesses in the area. From computer solutions […]
View
Places We Live_featured image 1200 x 628 px
Ballymun

Places We Live

Archive Player
Produced by young people from Ballymun in the 1980s, this documentary explores how the built environment, a lack of maintenance, and a lack of adequate health services has severely impacted health outcomes for the community. Residents express harrowing accounts of health and safety issues and a Buster Keaton-inspired interlude sheds light on daily risks and […]
View
Two of a Kind_featured image 1200 x 628 px
Ballymun

Two Of A Kind

Archive Player
Two of a Kind highlights the issues around housing in Ballymun and compares the Ballymun Towers with the Divis Flats, a similar controversial housing complex built in West Belfast in the 1960s. Anger over living conditions at the Divis Flats would later lead residents to campaign to demolish the complex in summer 1993. In this […]
View
Callahans_and_Murphys_02
Drama

Excerpt from ‘The Callahans and the Murphys’

Archive Player
This excerpt from the 1927 MGM film The Callahans and the Murphys was believed to be lost. The silent comedy film, adapted from a novel by Kathleen Norris, stars Marie Dressler and Polly Moran and tells the story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement. When the film was released, it caused […]
View
OE-18182 Take Home (Rain).mov_h264.mov.01_00_25_09.Still002-min
Guinness Adverts

Take Home Rain

Archive Player
The changing role of women in society can be traced through the collection. In this 1970s advert, a woman braves heavy rain to bring her husband a pint from the pub, unaware that Guinness is now available by bottle for home use. She may feature as the butt of the joke, but soon turns the tables, […]
View
OE-18180 Head Test.mov_h264.mov.01_00_12_18.Still002-min
Guinness Adverts

Head Test

Archive Player
A beautifully composed advert which encourages Guinness drinkers to write their initials into the head of a pint with a biro. The letters remaining visible, while the pint is enjoyed, is proof of the quality.  To see more of The Guinness Adverts Project click here. 
View
OE-15689 Telepathy.mov_h264.mov.01_00_17_12.Still003-min
Guinness Adverts

Telepathy

Archive Player
A pet toucan mimics the daily routine of a husband (Anton Rodgers) and wife as he returns home from work. This was the first appearance of the Guinness Toucan in a TV advert since the 1960s.   To see more of The Guinness Adverts Project click here. 
View
Fisherman 02-min
Guinness Adverts

Fisherman

Archive Player
Another cinematic advert with high production values, directed by Tony Scott. A group of men enjoy a slow-paced fishing trip, followed by a few bottles of Guinness in the local pub.  To see more of The Guinness Adverts Project click here. 
View
OE-15682 Ploughman.mov_h264.mov.01_00_30_00.Still006-min
Guinness Adverts

Ploughman

Archive Player
This evocative 1970s advert, directed by Ridley Scott, shows a farmer enjoying a well-deserved pub lunch of a sandwich and a pint of Guinness, after a morning’s toil in the fields.  To see more of The Guinness Adverts Project click here. 
View
Close