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Martina Anderson – Mná an IRA

4th April 2020

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Martina Anderson was born into a large republican family in the Bogside, Co Derry. In this programme she speaks of an early memory offering water and vinegar to tear gas victims during the Northern Ireland riots. She joined the IRA at an early age and at 18 was charged with possession of a firearm and […]

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Rosaleen McCorley – Mná an IRA

3rd April 2020

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Born in Belfast in 1957, Rosaleen McCorley left school at 17 to work in the Northern Ireland Housing Executive where she worked until the time of her arrest in 1990. She was sentenced to 66 years for the attempted murder of an army officer and possession of explosives. She obtained two degrees and a postgraduate […]

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Roseleen Walsh – Mná an IRA

2nd April 2020

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Roseleen Walsh was born in 1950 into a Belfast, republican family and she joined Cumann na mBan as a young woman. Walsh was interned in Armagh Prison in 1973 for just over a year, where she was afforded certain ‘freedoms’ as internees had political status at that time. Here, her writing flourished and she covered […]

Promos and Introductions (No category)

Pat Collins Introduces The Patrick Carey Collection

21st February 2020

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The acclaimed director of Song of Granite and Silence introduces The Patrick Carey Collection.

Drama

Join Me in the Pines – Feels So Heavy

4th February 2020

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Join Me in the Pines is the solo moniker for multi-instrumentalist and songwriter David Geraghty, also known to audiences as a founding member of Bell X1. Feels So Heavy is his latest single from the second album Monomania and is comprised of footage from Keep Watching the Skies (1975) filmed by Roy Spence. IFI was […]

Filmmaker Playlist

IFI Player Filmmaker Playlist – Lenny Abrahamson

31st October 2019

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Our inaugural playlist, curated by director Lenny Abrahamson – renowned for his multi-Academy Award nominated Room (2015) and acclaimed independent films like Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), What Richard Did (2012) and Frank (2014) – visits the Irish Film Institute to select his top picks of materials preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive from […]

Louis Lentin Collection

Our Boys’ Stories – Stolen Lives – Episode 1

16th October 2019

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The first episode of Stolen Lives focuses on the stories of four men and their experience of Ireland’s industrial schools. Their personal narratives expose the lifelong effect of physical, mental and sexual abuse on the residents of Irish institutions between the 1940s and 1970s in Ireland. Stolen Lives is a three-part series which is included […]

Louis Lentin Collection

We Were Only Children – Stolen Lives – Episode 2

15th October 2019

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The second episode in Stolen Lives centres on the stories of four women who suffered horrific abuse in Ireland’s industrial schools. Stolen Lives is a three-part series which is included in The Louis Lentin Collection. View the full collection here. With kind permission of Dr. Ronit Lentin.

Louis Lentin Collection

Philomena’s Story – Stolen Lives – Episode 3

14th October 2019

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The final episode in the Stolen Lives series is Philomena’s Story. Philomena Byrne recounts her own harrowing experience in a Dublin industrial school and speaks about the traumatic legacy of the industrial school scheme in Ireland. Stolen Lives is a three-part series which is included in The Louis Lentin Collection. View the full collection here. […]

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Dear Daughter

13th October 2019

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Dear Daughter was the first televised exposure of the horrific abuse of hundreds of children in Ireland’s industrial schools. Christine Buckley bravely recounts the extent of the atrocities she experienced as a child in Dublin’s Goldenbridge orphanage in this drama-documentary. Born in Dublin, she was the daughter of a married Irish woman and a Nigerian […]

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Ár Dover Féin

12th October 2019

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In 1937, ten young men between the ages of 13 and 23 migrated from Achill Island, Co. Mayo to Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow in Scotland to work in the potato fields. Tragically, on the night of their arrival, a fire swept through their makeshift accommodation claiming all of their young lives. This documentary investigates the Kirkintillock […]

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Grandpa, Speak To Me In Russian

11th October 2019

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In Grandpa, Speak To Me In Russian Louis Lentin explores the history of his paternal grandfather Kalman Lentin, who came to Ireland in the mid -1890s from the small, Jewish village of Zidik, North West Lithuania. Kalman Lentin was one of thousands of Jews who escaped the repressive Russian regime and one of few who […]