Tag Archives: Vanessa Gildea

Roseleen Walsh featured on ‘Mná an IRA’ TG4

January 31, 2012 Project: General, Mná an IRA Tagged Blanket Men, Cumann na mBan, IRA, Loopline Film, Martina Durac, Peace process, Sinn Fein, TG4, Vanessa Gildea

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

January 17, 2012 Project: Mná an IRA Tagged Fianna Éireann, Hunger Strike, IRA, Loopline Film, Martina Durac, Section 31, Sinn Fein, TG4, Vanessa Gildea

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

December 31, 2011 Project: Mná an IRA Tagged 1916, Art theft, Eddie Gallagher, IRA, James Connolly, Loopline Film, Martina Durac, Rose Dugdale, Russborough House, Sé Merry Doyle, Sinn Fein, Strabane, TG4, Vanessa Gildea

‘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’

October 5, 2011 Project: Jimmy Murakami - Non-Alien Tagged Animation, Arts Council, Dingle Film, Dublin Film Festival, Film Ireland, IFB, Jimmy Murakami, Loopline Film, Martina Durac, Merrydance, Network TV, New Hope Film, Pearl Harbor, Scaramento Film, Sé Merry Doyle, Snowman, Tule Lake, Vanessa Gildea, When the Wind Blows, WW2

‘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

October 3, 2011 Project: Hugo Hamilton Tagged Dublin Theatre Festival, Germany, Hugo Hamilton, Language, Loopline, Martina Durac, Nazis, TG4, The Speckled People, Vanessa Gildea, writer, WW2

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 [...]

WE’LL BE WEARING GREEN IN DINGLE THIS ST PATRICK’S WEEKEND

March 10, 2011 Project: Dreaming The Quiet Man, Jimmy Murakami - Non-Alien Tagged Corona Cork Film Festival, Dingle Film Festival, Documentary, Dreaming The Quiet Man, Jimmy Murakami, Loopline Film, Martina Durac, Maureen O'Hara, Non-Alien, Sé Merry Doyle, The Phoenix Cinema, The Quiet Man, Vanessa Gildea

The weather is getting better, the evenings are getting longer and the Loopliners are really looking forward to the Dingle Film Festival this year. It’s sure to be a great event not only because it is falling on St Patrick’s weekend but also because Loopline Film have two feature documentaries in this year’s line up. [...]

Happy New Year!!

January 10, 2011 Project: General Tagged Christmas Doc, Martina Durac, RTÉ1, Vanessa Gildea

All is well after the Christmas Holidays and everybody is settling back to business at 9 Lad Lane for a busy year ahead. We said goodbye to 2010 in style as up to 100,000 people across the country, cosy in their homes and safe from the frost and snow, tuned into RTÉ 1 on Christmas [...]