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List Of Irish Films
This is chronology of films produced in Ireland: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Cinema of Ireland * :Films shot in Ireland * :Irish-language films * Cinema of Northern Ireland * List of films set in Ireland * List of films set in Northern Ireland References External links Irish filmat the Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Irish Films Lists of Irish films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lad From Old Ireland
''The Lad from Old Ireland'', also called ''A Lad from Old Ireland'', is a one-reel 1910 American motion picture directed by and starring Sidney Olcott and written by and co-starring Gene Gauntier. It was the first film appearance of prolific actor/director J.P. McGowan. Production background The film was the first ever production by an American movie studio to be filmed on location outside of the United States. Filming took place around Cork and Killarney in Ireland, and in New York City. In August 1910, the Kalem Company of New York City sent director Sidney Olcott and a film crew to film in Europe. In Ireland, Olcott made ''The Lad From Old Ireland'' from a script written by Gene Gauntier. Shot by cinematographer George K. Hollister, the film was described in the publicity releases for its November premiere as "Kalem’s Great Trans-Atlantic Drama." Laurene Santley doubles the Irish grandmother in the indoor sequence shot in the Kalem New York studio. During that trip i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John MacDonagh
John MacDonagh (1879–1961) was an Irish film director, playwright, republican, and a participant in the 1916 Easter Rising. MacDonagh was born 4 October 1879 in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, where he grew up in a household filled with music, poetry and learning. Both his parents, Joseph McDonagh and Mary Parker, were teachers who strongly emphasized the value of education. He toured with the Moody Manners Opera Company in England and the United States before writing the script for D.W. Griffith's ''The Fugitive'' (1910). During the 1916 Easter Rising, he was stationed alongside his brother Thomas MacDonagh (one of the seven leaders of the Rising) at the massive complex of Jacob's Biscuit Factory. Following the surrender, Thomas MacDonagh was court martialled, and executed by firing squad on 3 May 1916, aged thirty-eight. MacDonagh last saw his brother in Richmond Barracks after the surrender. He was initially sentenced to life imprisonment and was sent to Knutsford Prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guests Of The Nation
"Guests of the Nation" is a short story written by Frank O'Connor, first published in 1931, portraying the execution of two British soldiers being held captive by the Irish Republican Army during the War for Independence. The story is split into four sections, each section taking a different tone. The first reveals a real sense of camaraderie between the IRA guards and the two English prisoners. With the two Englishmen being killed, the final lines of the story describe the nauseating effect this has on the Irishmen. Neil McKenzie's stage adaptation of the story received a 1958 Obie Award. Plot summary The story opens with two British Army enlisted men, Privates Hawkins and Belcher, being held prisoner by the Irish Volunteers near Ballinasloe, County Galway during the Irish War of Independence. They all play cards and argue about politics, religion, atheism, girls, socialism, and capitalism. The group is housed in the cottage of a fine old lady, who in addition to tending the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Flaherty
Robert Joseph Flaherty, (; February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, ''Nanook of the North'' (1922). The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of narrative documentary with '' Moana'' (1926), set in the South Seas, and ''Man of Aran'' (1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands. Flaherty is considered the "father" of both the documentary and the ethnographic film. Flaherty was married to writer Frances H. Flaherty from 1914 until his death in 1951. Frances worked on several of her husband's films, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for ''Louisiana Story'' (1948). Early life Flaherty was one of seven children born to prospector Robert Henry Flaherty (an Irish Protestant) and Susan Klockner (a German Catholic). Due to exposure from his fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of Aran
''Man of Aran'' is a 1934 Irish fictional documentary (ethnofiction) film shot, written and directed by Robert J. Flaherty about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters living in premodern conditions, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for huge basking sharks to get liver oil for lamps. Some situations are fabricated, such as one scene in which the shark fishermen are almost lost at sea in a sudden gale. Additionally, the family members shown are not actually related, having been chosen from among the islanders for their photogenic qualities. George C. Stoney's 1978 documentary ''How the Myth was Made'', which is included in the special features of the DVD, relates that the Aran Islanders had not hunted sharks in this way for over fifty years at the time the film was made. ''Man of Aran'' is Flaherty's recreation of culture on the edges of modern soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dewhurst (director)
George Dewhurst (1889 in Preston, Lancashire, England - 8 November 1968 in Tooting, London, England) was a British actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed several film versions of the play '' A Sister to Assist 'Er''. Partial filmography Screenwriter * ''The Lunatic at Large'' (1921) * ''The Narrow Valley'' (1921) * ''Dollars in Surrey'' (1921) * ''No Lady'' (1931) * ''The Price of Wisdom'' (1935) * '' Adventure Ltd.'' (1935) * '' King of the Castle'' (1936) Director * '' The Live Wire'' (1917) * ''A Great Coup'' (1919) *''The Homemaker'' (1919) * '' The Uninvited Guest'' (1923) * ''The Little Door Into the World'' (1923) * '' What the Butler Saw'' (1924) * ''Sweeney Todd'' (1926) * ''Irish Destiny'' (1926) * ''The Rising Generation'' (1928) Actor * '' The Woman Wins'' (1918) * '' The Toilers'' (1919) * ''The Tinted Venus'' (1921) * ''Never Trouble Trouble'' (1931) * '' Men Without Honour'' (1939) * ''Deadlock In concurrent computing, deadlock is any situatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Destiny
''Irish Destiny'' is a 1926 film made in the Irish Free State, directed by George Dewhurst and written by Isaac Eppel to mark the tenth anniversary of the Easter Rising. A cut version was released in Britain, entitled ''An Irish Mother''. The film was considered lost for many years until in 1991 a single surviving nitrate print was located by the Irish Film Institute in the United States' Library of Congress. The institute's archive had the film transferred to safety stock and restored. The institute then commissioned Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin to write a new score for the film. ''Irish Destiny'' is the first fiction film that deals with the Irish War of Independence, and the first and only film written and produced by Isaac (Jack) Eppel, a Jewish Dublin GP and pharmacist who also enjoyed a career as theater impresario and cinema owner. Cast * Paddy Dunne Cullinan as Denis O'Hara * Frances Macnamarra as Moira Barry, a schoolteacher and Denis' fiancée * Daisy Campbell Dais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée Adorée
Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love interest of John Gilbert in the melodramatic romance and war epic ''The Big Parade''. Adorée‘s career was cut short after she contracted tuberculosis in 1930. She died of the disease in 1933 at the age of 35. Early life Born in Lille as Jeanne de la Fonte, Adorée was the daughter of circus artists and performed regularly with her parents as a child. She performed as an acrobat, dancer and bareback rider throughout Europe. She adopted the stage name Renée Adorée (French for "reborn" and "adored", both in the feminine form), and established a reputation for her dancing skills in countries including Belgium, France, Germany and Sweden. She was performing in Brussels when World War I began. She was billed as Renée Adorée in an Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulette Duval
Paulette Duval (1889 – 1951) was a French dancer and actress of the silent film era and early sound motion pictures. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1889 and raised in France. She was considered one of the most beautiful women in Paris in the early 20th century. Paulette was recruited by Florenz Ziegfeld for the Ziegfeld Follies, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City on October 15, 1923. Before joining the Follies, the French beauty was engaged with the ''Scandals'' dance productions of George White. Fashion conscious film actress Duval was in Hollywood movies from 1919 to 1933. She is widely known for her role Madame de Pompadour in '' Monsieur Beaucaire''. Rudolph Valentino starred with Duval in the 1924 production based on a novel written by Booth Tarkington. In 1925, she played the role of a vamp in the film version of ''Cheaper to Marry''. The movie was based on the noted stage play written by Samuel Shipman. Paulette played a young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Graves
Ralph Graves (born Ralph Horsburgh; January 23, 1900 – February 18, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director and actor who appeared in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1949. Biography Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Graves had already been cast in 46 films, half of them produced by Mack Sennett, before he wrote, directed, and starred in ''Swell Hogan'' in 1926. That film was produced by Howard Hughes, whose father had once supported the young actor in the early stages of his career by placing him on the payroll of the Hughes Tool Company between screen assignments, even though Graves never actually worked there. Graves and the younger Hughes met on the Wilshire Country Club golf course, and over lunch the actor pitched a film about a Bowery bum who adopts a baby. The plot intrigued Hughes, who had a strong interest in Hollywood, and he invested $40,000 in the project. During filming he sat on the sidelines in order to familiarize himself with the technical aspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blarney (film)
''Blarney'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent melodrama film directed by Marcel De Sano, and starring Ralph Graves, Paulette Duval, and Renée Adorée. The film is based on the short story "In Praise of John Carabine" by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne. Plot James (Ralph Graves), an Irish prizefighter, becomes involved with two New York girls. Cast * Renée Adorée as Peggy Nolan * Ralph Graves as James Carabine * Paulette Duval as Marcolina * Malcolm Waite as Blanco Johnson * Margaret Seddon as Peggy's Aunt References External links * * 1926 films 1925 drama films 1925 films Silent American drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films American boxing films Films about Irish-American culture Films based on short fiction Films set in New York City Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Melodrama films 1926 drama films Films directed by Marcel De Sano 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy O'Dea
James Augustine O'Dea (26 April 1899 – 7 January 1965) was an Irish actor and comedian. Life Jimmy O'Dea was born at 11 Lower Bridge Street, Dublin, to James O'Dea, an ironmonger, and Martha O'Gorman, who kept a small toy shop. He was one of 11 children. His father had a shop in Capel Street. He was educated at the Irish Christian Brothers O'Connell School in North Richmond Street, Dublin, where a classmate was future Taoiseach Seán Lemass, by the Holy Ghost Fathers at Blackrock College, and by the Jesuits at Belvedere College.''The Irish Times'', "Jimmy O'Dea dies after 40 years on the Irish stage", 8 January 1965 From a young age he was interested in taking to the stage; he co-founded an amateur acting group, the Kilronan Players, in 1917. But his father would not hear of it. O'Dea was apprenticed to an optician in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he qualified as an optician. He returned to Dublin where, aged 21, he set up his own business which he was, eventually, to give to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
