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Film festival to bring Irish language to Manchester Manchester
is set to become the location for a major Irish language film festival.
From September 29 to October 6 the Manchester Irish language Group and
Conradh na Gaeilge have organised a showcase of four Irish language films.
They have secured the co-operation of the Cornerhouse Independent Cinema
to show in full cinema format a series of films as Gaeilge.
These include Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom, a 14-minute short film with English
subtitles first released in 2003, and Poitín, a 1977 hour-long
movie.
Both will be shown on Saturday, September 29 starting from 10.30 am.
The event will attempt to bring the Irish language to a city that contains
Europe’s largest student population and make people aware of Irish
language films, radio and TV.
Conradh na Gaeilge’s Éamann Ó Colmáin said:
“We intend to make a big splash in Manchester and put our teanga
álainn on the map.
“Poitín, which was broadcast on RTÉ in 1977, has never
been shown on the big screen.
“We tried to get one of the films shown on Manchester’s Big
Screen in Exchange Square but in the end that wasn’t possible.”
Other Irish language shorts will be shown after selected Manchester Irish
language group classes.
These include Fillean an Feall, a 24-minute subtitled movie that will
be broadcast in St. Kentigerns, Fallowfield, and Tubberware, a 20-minute-long
film that will be shown in The Irish World Heritage Centre.
n For further details contact Pat McGuinness on 0161 225 0645 or Eamonn
Coleman on 01706 365282. |
