Louis Lentin Documentary

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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. It exposed the cruelty and abuse happening in Dublin’s Goldenbridge Industrial School (a.k.a. St. Vincent’s Orphanage). In this drama-documentary film, Christine Buckley bravely recounts the extent of the atrocities she experienced as a child in Goldenbridge. […]

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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 […]

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