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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 [...]
Martina Anderson features on Mná an IRA TG4
Martina Anderson Episode 4 26th Jan TG4 10:30 PM Born into a large republican family on Lecky Road in the Free Derry Corner area of the Bogside. Her earliest memories of the troubles are bringing buckets of water and vinegar out during riots, for those who’s eyes were hurt by gas. She witnessed many atrocities [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rosaleen McCorley featured in last episode of Mná an IRA