Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please check here regularly for updated dates and times.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

Programme 1

AMHARC ÉIREANN
Newsreel stories celebrate the arrival of spring with new fashions, hair-styles and the spring show.
FILM INFO: 5 minutes, 1960-1964, Black and White

AINMHITHE NA FEIRME
Liam Ó Laoghaire and Brendan Ó Sé’s film  about farm animals and their offspring in  the springtime.
FILM INFO: 5 minutes, 1942, Black and White

ALL IN AN APRIL EVENING
Prolific amateur filmmaker Father Jackie Moran illustrates the poem read by Dennis Brennan.
FILM INFO: 5 minutes, 1963, Colour

DUBLIN SPRING SHOW
Lively livestock compete at the Springshow.
FILM INFO: 3 minutes, 1974, Colour

Programme 2

IRELAND IN SPRING

Colm Ó Laoghaire’s warmly hued film records pageants, parades, folk dancing and street life at An Tóstal, the nationwide festival of Irish culture, designed to entice tourists in a little earlier.
FILM INFO: 27 minutes, 1957, Colour

Please see also: Archive at Lunchtime: Programme 1 and Programme 2 on Mondays and Wednesdays in April.

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).