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Muintir na Mara Donegal
Muintir na Mara Sunday 9:30 TG4 In this final series Pádraig Ó Duinnín, a boat builder from Cork. travels by boat, bicycle and van around the stunning coast of Donegal. This week Pádraig watches the All Ireland semi final in Leitir Mac an Bhaird. travels by boat to Inis Caorach and Arann Mór and [...]
Kathleen Lynn screens Easter Saturday TG4
When Sé Merry Doyle’s documentary ‘Kathleen Lynn – The Rebel Doctor’ was first screened on TG4 on Easter Sunday 2011 the reaction was extraordinary. All the reviews questioned how did it come to pass that Kathleen’s remarkable life, both as a Republican and a doctor, who dedicated her life to the poor of Dublin was [...]
Farewell to Muintir na Mara
Farewell MUINTIR NA MARA On Sunday 25th March at 9.30pm, the sixth and final series of Muintir na Mara, made by Loopline Film, will return to our screens on TG4. The series, directed by Martina Durac and produced by Vanessa Gildea, is presented by Pádraig Ó Duinnín, who continues on his voyage around the [...]
‘Dreaming the Quiet Man’ Canadian Premier
Great excitement in Toronto for Canadian Premier on Friday 9th March. The folks in Toronto are pulling out all the stops and ‘Dreaming the Quiet Man’ opens the festival with a Gala screening. Sadly the Director of the film Sé Merry Doyle will not be in attendance as he has a fear of flying but [...]
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 [...]
Muintir na Mara Donegal
Muintir na Mara is now in its sixth season. Master boat builder Pádraig Ó Duinnín has taken us on epic journeys along the coastlines of Cork, Kery, Clare, Galway, Mayo and Sligo. Director Martina Durac and Producer Vanessa Gildea have started filming our new series of Muintir na Mara and spent the last few days [...]
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 [...]
Kathleen Lynn Documentary gets special second screening. Click
When “Kathleen Lynn – The Rebel Doctor” screened on Easter Monday the audience response was overwhelming. It was the fourth most watched programme on TG4 that week. Irish Times critic Bernice Harrison – ‘ The docu drama – Ingrid Craigie played Lynn in some dramatic reconstructions – gave an excellent insight into this extraordinary and [...]
Launch of Kathleen Lynn at RCPI a great success
We had our premiere of Kathleen Lynn The Rebel Doctor at RCPI on Wednesday night. The Royal College of Physicians was the perfect setting to hold the screening as it is home to all of the Saint Ultan’s archive, a beautiful portrait of Kathleen and of course her diaries. The Rebel Doctor was a huge [...]
Journey’s End for Muintir na Mara