MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS

Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office.

PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC ÉIREANN – COMPILATION

Canoeing and other watersports around the country.
FILM INFO: 6 mins, 1959–1961, Digital, B&W and Colour

BLACKWATER HOLIDAY

Fresh from their collaboration on the Royal Showband film, The One Nighters, Bob Monks and Peter Collinson (The Italian Job) came together
 to make this new film promoting canoe-camping holidays run by the Murphy family of Rathcoole
in Co. Cork on the Blackwater River.

FILM INFO: 18 mins, 1964, Colour, Digital

PROGRAMME 2: AMHARC ÉIREANN – SAOIRE AR SIONAINN

A short cruise for senior citizens on the Shannon.

FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1957, B&W

EMERALD SHANNON

In this film directed by Mike Lawlor, The Bakers, an English family, arrive in the West of Ireland for a delightful cruising holiday along the Shannon visiting Banagher, Clonmacnoise and Athlone along the way.

FILM INFO: 27 mins, 1971, Colour

See also Archive at Lunchtime Programme 1 and our Programme 2.