Irish Film Institute -SPECIAL EVENT: INEZ – A CHALLENGING WOMAN

SPECIAL EVENT: INEZ – A CHALLENGING WOMAN

Director: Trevor Birney and Eimhear O'Neill

33 minutes, 2014, D-Cinema


Through archive footage, an interview with Inez McCormack herself, and contributions from friends and colleagues such as Hillary Clinton, Mary Robinson and President Michael D. Higgins, this award-winning film explores the life of a remarkable woman who began her career as a civil rights activist in Northern Ireland in 1968 and continued as a passionate and effective advocate of social justice until her death in 2013.

 The screening will take place in the presence of the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins. It will be followed by a panel discussion with Michael Farrell, civil rights activist, Martin O’Brien, the Senior Vice President for Programmes at Atlantic PhilanthropiesTrevor Birney, co-director, and Susan McKay, producer.

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