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Fleá Ceoil
Louis Marcus Collection

Fleá Ceoil

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Louis Marcus’s film is a finely observed record of the West Clare Fleadh of 1966 which was held that year in the towns of Kilrush and Quilty. The Fleadh was the highlight of the year on the traditional music calendar. There had been a big resurgence of interest in traditional Irish music in the 1960s, […]
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Ballinascreen 9
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Ballinascreen

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Impressed by Terence McDonald’s film The Parish Centre, Fr Michael Collins commissioned McDonald to make Ballinascreen, documenting his parish in Draperstown, County Derry. This charming hour-long colour film, with a detailed narration by Gerry Wills, captures the farming practices, local industry, traditional music and dance, sport, religious life and education of the parish and surrounding […]
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Reflections – Ireland

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Reflections – Ireland is a stunning, non-narrated tourist film with accompanying music by Paddy Moloney and The Chieftains. Many of Paddy Carey films depict a scarcity of civilisation, an untouched landscape, but here he treats the viewer to the beauties of landscape interwoven with a vivid tapestry of human activity: anglers in a lively river; […]
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