Irish Studies
FROM SHORE TO SHORE: IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITYAmerican Studies Irish Studies Music New York City Immigration
Examines both the continuity and the changes that have affected Irish traditional music
since the turn of the century. Using New York City as the focus, this video mixes
historical photographs and film footage with contemporary interviews and performances.
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DAUGHTERS OF THE TROUBLES: BELFAST STORIESIrish Studies Sociology Women's Studies Directed by Women
This documentary offers first-person accounts of the lives of two working-class
Belfast women told against the violent history of the last twenty-five years in Northern
Ireland.
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AN IRISH (AMERICAN) STORYAmerican Studies Irish Studies Immigration
Mary Crehan Dillon, the filmmaker's 96-year-old Irish-American grandmother, who as a
17-year-old emigrated alone to the U.S. in 1911, reminisces about her early life in Ireland,
her momentous decision to emigrate, and her new life in America.
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MILLION BRICKS, AIrish Studies Peace & Conflict Religion & Spirituality Sociology Urban Studies
This video tells the story of Springfield Park, a housing estate built in the early Sixties in
West Belfast, made up of both Catholic and Protestant families who lived side by side in
harmony.
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KEEP THE PARTY GOING: IRISH WAKESAnthropology Death & Dying Irish Studies Psychology & Psychiatry
This video explores the Irish tradition of 'waking the dead,' when an all-night vigil is
maintained at the home of the deceased the night before burial.
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FAMINE SHIP
Filmed over a two-year period, this video traces the creation of sculptor John Behan's
"Famine Ship," a large bronze sculpture commissioned by the Irish Government in 1997
to commemorate the famine of 1845-47.
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REEL IRISHDance Irish Studies Performing Arts Women's Studies Immigration
This video examines the world of amateur Irish dancing, featuring interviews with Irish
women in Great Britain who have passed on this cultural tradition within their own
families and the wider Irish immigrant community.
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BOOKS IN THE BLOOD
This video tells the story of Des and Maureen Kenny, two young Irish university
graduates, who in 1940 established a small bookshop in Galway, which has today become
one of the most famous and beautiful bookstores in the world.
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UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREEIrish Studies Directed by Women
This feature-length film dramatizes the experiences of three Irish children during the Great
Potato Famine of 1845.
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DOWN TO THE BEDROCKArcheology Irish Studies World History
This video chronicles the recently completed archaeological excavation in the Temple Bar
area of Dublin, which produced evidence of the first Viking settlement established in A.D.
841, as well as a pre-Norman settlement confirmed to be the earliest origins of the city.
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THE HARD ROAD TO KLONDIKEAmerican Studies Irish Studies Sociology Immigration
Based on the autobiography of Donegal-born Michael MacGowan, (
1865-1948), this video is a stirring account of his life
as a migrant worker and exile in America at the turn of
the century.
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DANCE LEXIE DANCEShort Films Dance Irish Studies Children & Young Adult
This short drama, nominated for an Academy Award ® in 1998 as Best Live-Action
Short, tells the story of Laura, a 12-year-old Protestant girl who wants to be a
Riverdancer when she grows up.
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35-ASIDEShort Films Children & Young Adult Irish Studies
The most critically acclaimed short film ever made in Ireland, and winner of over forty
international awards, this witty and visually imaginative comedy relates the childhood
trials and tribulations of Philip, who is having a hard time at his new school.
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THE PIPES ARE CALLINGShort Films Music Irish Studies American Studies Directed by Women
Portrays a summer bagpipe school in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where piping enthusiasts
from all over North America gather to learn the craft and music of the traditional
instrument of the Scottish highlands.
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IRELAND, MOTHER IRELANDPerforming Arts Music Irish Studies
This concert, performed at the elegant 18th-century Dublin residence of the American
Ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith, features tenor James W. Flannery,
accompanied by pianist William Ransom and harpist Cormac DeBarra, who perform a
wide range of Irish favorites, including traditional melodies.
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BLOOMSDAYLiterature Irish Studies Cultural Studies
Portrays the day-long Bloomsday celebration, when James Joyce devotees annually
recreate and relive, through role-playing and readings, the famous odyssey of Leopold
Bloom around Dublin on June 16th, 1904, as immortalized in Joyce's classic novel,
Ulysses.
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I CREATED DRACULA
This documentary examines the life and work of the Dublin born writer, Bram Stoker
(1847-1912), who is best known as the author of the classic horror novel, Dracula.
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