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Launch of Irish amateur footage DVD.

8 Oct 2011

The DVD Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970 will be presented on 12 October 2011, 6pm, O’Rahilly Building 2.55

You are cordially invited to a presentation of the DVD

Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970

12 October 2011, 6pm, O’Rahilly Building 2.55

The DVD will be launched by

Dr Mark Chu (Head of Italian), Prof. Patricia Coughlan (Head of School of English)

The project and footage will be introduced by

Drs Barry Monahan (English), Laura Rascaroli (Italian), Gwenda Young (English)

 

The event includes a short screening of some excerpts from the DVD including: home movies of UCC in the 1950s; Father Delaney’s footage of inner city Dublin in the 1930s; JFK’s visit to Dublin in 1963; footage of Castle Leslie from the 1930s, and of the Grand Canal and of Dublin Zoo in the 1960s; and amateur animation. The selection will be accompanied by live music, and will be followed by a wine reception in the public area outside ORB 2.55

 

Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences under its Research Development Initiative, the UCC-based project Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970 aimed at cataloguing, digitising and studying a collection of amateur cinema hosted by the Irish Film Institute, Dublin. Started in December 2008, and spanning two years, the project, which was granted funds of the value of €100,000, was a collaboration between a team of researchers in Film Studies at UCC, Dr Laura Rascaroli of the Department of Italian and Dr Barry Monahan and Dr Gwenda Young of the School of English, and senior archivists at the IFI.

 

Musician CLAUDIA SCHWAB has a background in classical music, Austrian folk and vocal traditions, as well as eastern European and Balkan music. Involved in Irish traditional music since moving to Ireland in 2005, she is currently studying composition and North Indian Classical music.

 

All Welcome

Department of Film and Screen Media

Scannánaíocht agus Meáin Scáileán

O'Rahilly Building, University College Cork, Ireland

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