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Christmas Cards Help World’s Refugees / Cártaí Nollag ag Cabhrú le Teifigh an Domhain

Amharc Éireann 1961
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‘Puss in Boots’ Panto Comes to Drimnagh / Tháinig an Gheamaireacht ‘Puss in Boots’ go Droimneach

1960s-1980s
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Toys – Buy Now for Christmas! / Bréagáin – Ceannaigh Anois don Nollaig!

Amharc Éireann 1963
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Christmas Day Swim / Snámh Lae Nollag

Amharc Éireann 1961

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Amharc Éireann 1961

Bord na Móna Briquette Factory Opened / Osclaíodh Monarcha Brícíní Bhord na Móna

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Eagrán 126.2   Erskine Childers, Minister for Transport and Power, attends the official opening of the new Bord na Móna factory at Croghan, County Offaly. D’fhreastail Erskine Childers, an tAire Iompair agus Cumhachta, ar oscailt oifigiúil mhonarcha nua Bhord na Móna i gCruachán, Contae Uíbh Fhailí.     Produced by Gael Linn, Amharc Éireann (A View […]
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Amharc Éireann 1961

Dublin Students Ban-The-Bomb Protest / Agóid Mhic Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath i gCoinne an Bhuama

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Eagrán  126.1   Students from Trinity College take to the streets of Dublin to protest nuclear bomb testing. Thug mic léinn ó Choláiste na Tríonóide aghaidh ar shráideanna Bhaile Átha Cliath chun agóid a dhéanamh i gcoinne tástála buamaí núicléacha.     Produced by Gael Linn, Amharc Éireann (A View of Ireland) is Ireland’s first long-running […]
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Lipservice 2
1980s-2000s

Lipservice

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The Oral Irish, a compulsory language exam dreaded by secondary school students, is the subject of this short directed by Paul Mercier. In a Dublin school, an examiner (Sean McGinley) meets a variety of students to test their proficiency in the Irish language. He encounters low levels of fluency but impressive levels of bravado as […]
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Drama

Yu Ming is Ainm Dom

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Tired of his dead-end supermarket job, Yu Ming (Daniel Wu) decides to learn Irish and leave his home country of China for a new life overseas. With a simple spin of a globe he decides that Ireland will be his new home. When he researches Irish culture and learns that Gaelic is the country’s official […]
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Aqua
Drama

AQUA

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An Irish language short film, Aqua tells the tale of Nick and Laura, an enterprising young couple, who plan to record the sounds of Irish rivers and sell them to the Irish-American market claiming it has soothing powers. Directed by Edel O’Brien, this film looks at the flipside of Celtic Tiger Ireland when greed was […]
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Clare Sa Speir
Drama

Clare Sa Spéir

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A neglected and overworked housewife reaches her record-breaking point.  Attempting to break a world record, mother and wife Clare is determined to live in a tree for 32 days. In her absence, her reluctant husband is forced to take on the heavy burden of her domestic duties. Meanwhile, despite the obstacles of torrential rain, loneliness […]
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Gearrscannáin

Voyage to Recovery (Turas Téarnaimh)

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A young man (Joe Lynch) contracts tuberculosis to the dismay of his wife (Joan O’Hara) and to the shame of her aunt (Marie Keane). He recovers following a long spell convalescing in a tuberculosis sanatorium. A public information film infused with tension and humour and directed by actor/playwright Gerard Healy, this dramatized film looks at […]
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Coisc an Gadai!_03-min
1930s-1960s

Stop Thief (Coisc an Gadaí)

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One of a series of dramatised public information films commissioned by the Department of Health and directed here by actor/playwright Gerard Healy. A young Dublin girl becomes gravely ill with diphtheria and her parents are filled with remorse for their failure to immunise her. The aim of this film, commissioned by the Department of Health, […]
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Entertainment

Where Does The Money Go? (Cá n-Imíonn an t’Airgead)

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One of a series of public information films directed with verve and humour by actor/playwright Gerard Healy. This film was commissioned by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in the impoverished years of the 1950s, in an attempt to encourage Irish spendthrifts to mend their frivolous ways. The film’s intention was to encourage people to […]
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