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Leaving Church – The Horgan Brothers Collection

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As future cinema owners, The Horgan Brothers had the foresight to know any event that attracted enormous crowds was worthy of filming. From 1917, their amateur newsreel The Youghal Gazette was shown in The Horgan Picture Theatre, and people from the locality would come to catch a glimpse of themselves on the big screen. This […]
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Declan’s Well- The Horgan Brothers Collection

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Located in Ardmore, Waterford, Saint Declan’s Well dates back to the 14th century. In this film the viewer is shown parts of the oratory and Saint Declan’s tower but perhaps the most interesting is footage of a man and a woman walking underneath Saint Declan’s stone. Legend has it, on the feast day of the […]
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Marches/Parades – The Horgan Brothers Collection

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The Horgan Brothers’ films (1910-1920) are some of the earliest moving images made in Ireland. The brothers were photographers who turned their attention to the moving image, eventually opening a cinema in their home town of Youghal, Co Cork. It was here they screened their newsreel-style films, which they named The Youghal Gazette. To see more […]
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Clock Tower Animation – The Horgan Brothers Collection

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The Youghal Clock Tower is a light-hearted and playful exploration of the possibilities of animation in its infancy. In this short, the well-known landmark is depicted dancing into frame as the clock gate comes to life, spinning and dancing through the main street of the Cork town. It is likely that James Horgan was one […]
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Badminton Championships: Mens’ Doubles / Craobhchomórtais Bhadmantain: Cluichí Dúbailte na bhFear

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Amharc Éireann – Eagrán 80   Ulster and Leinster fight for the title at the All-Ireland Badminton Championships Men’s Doubles in Dublin. Uladh agus Laighean i gcomórtas don teideal ag Craobhchomórtas Badmantan Uile-Éireann na bhFear i mBaile Átha Cliath.     Produced by Gael Linn, Amharc Éireann (A View of Ireland) is Ireland’s first long-running indigenous […]
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Creation Ball to Help Remedial Clinic / Bál an Chruthaithe chun Cabhrú le Clinic Íocshláinteach

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Amharc Éireann – Eagrán 80   Lady Valerie Goulding hosts a ladies’ fashion show to raise money for the Central Remedial Clinic, in the Shelbourne Hotel Ballroom, Dublin. Reáchtáil an Bhantiarna Valerie Goulding seó faisin do mhná chun airgead a bhailiú don Chlinic Lárnach Íocshláinteach, i mBálseomra Óstán Shelbourne, Baile Átha Cliath.     Produced […]
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Colman Doyle: Ábhar Machnaimh

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This feature length documentary profiles veteran Irish photographer, Colman Doyle, who has documented almost every major historical event in Ireland over a 50 year period. Directed by James Kelly, it explores Doyle’s vast archive of photographs covering the political, social and economic history of Ireland – both North and South – through the second half […]
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Republican Loan Film

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In 1919, on the block where Robert Emmet was executed, Michael Collins read a letter from Michael Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe, pledging financial support to the new self-declared Irish Republic. Filmed at St. Enda’s College in Rathfarnham, (the school founded by Patrick Pearse in 1908), this remarkable film shows Michael Collins, the Irish Government’s Minister […]
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