''Cré na Cille'' is a 2007 Irish film directed by Robert Quinn. In the

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

, it is an adaptation of

Máirtín Ó Cadhain Máirtín Ó Cadhain (; 1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his 1949 novel ''Cré na Cille'', Ó Cadhain played a key role in reintroducing literary mod ...

's 1949 novel ''

Cré na Cille () is an Irish language novel by Máirtín Ó Cadhain. It was first published in 1949. It is considered one of the greatest novels written in the Irish language. Title ''Cré na Cille'' literally means "Earth of the Church"; it has also been ...

''. It was released outside Ireland under the English title ''Graveyard Clay''.

Production

''Cré na Cille'' was filmed in various locations in Connemara,

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in 2006 to commemorate the centenary of Ó Cadhain's birth. It was filmed with HDCAM in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and with

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sound.

Plot

A graveyard in Connemara. As the members of a small community die, their spirits linger on in the grave and can speak to each other.

Release

''Cré na Cille'' premiered in Galway in December 2006. It screened at the 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival (shortlisted for the Jin Jue Award) and at the Irish Film Festival, Boston. ''Cré na Cille'' won an award for Outstanding Services to the Irish Language at the 2007 Aisling Awards. It premiered on television on

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2007.

Bríd Ní Neachtain Bríd Ní Neachtain ( ; born 1959) is an Irish actress known for ''Dancing at Lughnasa''. Early life Born in Galway, Neachtain is a native of Connemara. She starred in an adaptation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's 1948 novel, ''Cré na Cille''. Sh ...

's performance was highly praised by critics.

Awards

Legacy

Dr Seán Crosson of NUI Galway observed that "It was remarked to me by one of those involved in the production of ''Cré na Cille'', for example, that if it had not been made this year, it would have been increasingly difficult for the work ever to have been successfully adapted as fluent speakers of the richly textured and complex Irish found in Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece become more difficult to find." Actress

appeared on an Irish 55-

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stamp in 2008, depicted in a still from ''Cré na Cille''.

References

External links

* * 2007 films Irish comedy-drama films Irish-language films {{Ireland-film-stub