Irish Film Institute -ARCHIVE A LUNCHTIME DOUBLE BILL (FREE EVENT – AUGUST 2015)

ARCHIVE A LUNCHTIME DOUBLE BILL (FREE EVENT – AUGUST 2015)

Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times.

PROGRAMME 1
SURPRISING IRELAND

A tour around Ireland in the late 1980s features para-glilding, The Rose of Tralee, Hal Roach, a funky disco and wonderful street footage of Dublin.

FILM INFO: 12 mins, 1987, Colour

 

IRELAND A HUNDRED THOUSAND WELCOMES  

Fictional British couple Mr and Mrs Williams travel to Killarney, Cork, the Aran Islands and the Cliffs of Moher, encountering folk singers, tweed-weavers, and shark fishermen.

FILM INFO: 13 mins, 1959, Colour

 

PROGRAMME 2
PROSPECTS OF IRELAND

“Ireland is on the way to everywhere… empty roads, empty beaches, no passports for English people, no language barrier” – a tourist haven without any of the pressures of modern life.

FILM INFO: 30 mins, 1970, Colour 

 

This event is open to all. Simply book your FREE seat by contacting the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 or emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie (given that events can sell out, please note that your emailed booking requests must be confirmed by reply email from the Box Office in order to be considered valid).

You may also like to see our From the Vaults special event on Wednesday, August 19th when we will screen Vivienne Dick’s Visibility: Moderate & Images: Ireland and the Director Vivienne Dick will be in attendance to introduce these screenings.

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