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Roseleen Walsh featured on ‘Mná an IRA’ TG4
Roseleen Walsh Mná an IRA Episode 5 TG4 Feb 2 10:30 PM Roseleen Walsh was born in Belfast in 1950. She came from a republican family, and joined Cumann na mBán as a young woman. This was a natural enough progression for young nationalists at the time, and wouldn’t have been seen as strange within [...]
Pamela Kane featured on Mná an IRA
Episode 3 of Mna an IRA features Pamela Kane on Thursday 19th January TG4 10:30pm Pamela Kane Pamela Kane comes from a Republican family. She grew up in Baldoyle, in north Dublin but her roots lay in Tyrone where her father is from. Throughout all the family holidays she spent in Cappagh in Tyrone as [...]
Rose Dugdale on TG4
‘MNÁ AN IRA – Dearcadh ar Leith’ - ‘Women of the IRA – A Particular View’ Director: Martina Durac Producer: Vanessa Gildea Editor: Genevieve Murphy Rose Dugdale 5th January 2012 – episode 1 @ 22:30, with a repeat the following Monday @ 23:55 Episode 1 Rose Dugdale has led an extraordinary life and her unexpected [...]
Washington DC hosts ‘Jimmy Murakami – Non Alien’
‘Jimmy Murakami – Non Alien’ screens at the Washington DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival on the 9th October. In this award winning feature documentary, the famous animator makes a pilgrimage back to Tule Lake Concentration Camp, where he was interned alongside his family for four years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
HUGO HAMILTON – CROÍ AGUS TEANGA on TG4
Hugo Hamilton is the author of many novels as well as an acclaimed memoir, The Speckled People, described as an ‘instant classic’ and translated into twenty languages. That book told the heartbreaking story of life as a child in a household torn apart by the “language wars”. Hugo’s mother was German and she fled her [...]
Ireland’s most controversial sculptor gets special screening on TG4
John Henry Foley – Sculptor of the Empire gets a special screening on TG4 31st July 23:15. Here is a wonderful clip showing how Foley created the Daniel O’Connell Monument in Dublin in 1866 but went on to feel the wrath of Republicans went he took on the commission to sculpt Prince Albert in London [...]
Muintir na Mara on the move to Sligo
Pádraig says a fond farewell to Mayo this week meeting with fisherman TJ Flannery in Ballycastle and surfing enthusiast Cillian Ó Mongáin in Killala Bay before he hits the road for Sligo. The first port of call in Sligo is Kilcullen’s seaweed emporium where Pádraig takes a relaxing bath before driving to Dromore West to [...]
NEXT STOP – CROAGH PATRICK
The first episode of Muintir na Mara hit the screen last Sunday as Pádraig began his Journey through Mayo. If you missed it, you can catch the repeat this Friday, March 25th, at midnight. For those of you who are living on more distant shores, you can click here to watch it on TG4 player. [...]
PÁDRAIG Ó DUINNÍN ROWS INTO MAYO THIS SUNDAY ON TG4
Muintir na Mara is back on our screens this Sunday evening on TG4 20th March at 20.15. Tune in to see Pádraig embark on the first leg of his journey in the beautiful county of Mayo. Pádraig and his canine travel companion, Shebah, start this year’s voyage by currach, rowing into Whitestrand, then onto Killary [...]
Rosaleen McCorley featured in last episode of Mná an IRA