By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue we look at a selection of films featuring Fleadhanna Ceoil between 1957 and 1966 around Ireland. With the release of over 255 Irish-language newsreels on the IFI Archive Player in March 2025 as part of Amharc Éireann: A View of Ireland, there are numerous new examples of fleadhanna … Read more
By Neil Moxham Terence McDonald (1926–2001) was an amateur film-maker from Derry active from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. A teacher by profession, he completed over twenty films under the banner of Fairview Films, taking on all aspects of film production and covering a huge range of genres and subjects. His collection represents … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey Gael Linn was established in 1953 to promote and revitalise Irish language and culture through a variety of means, which would eventually include music, film and educational initiatives. A most successful and accessible early venture was the establishment in 1956 of the Amharc Éireann newsreel, the first regular indigenous cinema newsreel … Read more
By Sarah Arnold and Kasandra O’Connell Film-maker Flora Kerrigan, born in Cork in 1940, attended Crawford Art College before becoming an active member of the Cork Cine Club in the late 1950s and 1960s. Over eight years, she crafted remarkable animation and live-action shorts on 8mm film, earning international accolades and an airing on RTÉ. … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey This year saw the launch of Ballymun Community Films on the IFI Archive Player, the culmination of a five-year project between Ballymun Communications and the IFI Irish Film Archive, funded by Coimisiún na Meán. Over 1,000 hours were digitised and catalogued in the IFI Irish Film Archive. A showcase of more … Read more