manchester irish language group

2nd Irish language film festival organised by Manchester Irish Language Group and Conradh na Gaeilge, Manchester.

Programme

Event	Date	Time	Venue
*Kings*	20-09-2008	10.30am-1.00pm	The Cornerhouse	The film will be followed by a discussion of film, language and heritage with guest speakers, Eithne Ni Ghallchobhair and Tom Collins, and an informal social gathering in the cinema.
*Club cuideachta*	20-09-2008	8.00pm - 11.00pm	Briton's Protection
*Clare sa Spéir*	23-09-2008	9.00pm	St Kent's Irish club
*Lipservice*	24-09-2008	9.00pm	Cheetham Hill Irish club
*Comhrá*	26-09-2008	from 8.00 pm	The Lass O’Gowrie

All films will be subtitled in english.

Films

• Kings

Director: Tom Collins, 2007, xx mins.
Featuring: Colm Meaney, Brendan Conroy, Donal O'Kelly, Barry Barnes, Donncha Crowley, Sean O Tarpaigh.

A universal story of disenfranchisement and search for identity. In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home - but does so in a coffin. Jackie's five friends reunite at his wake where they are forced face up to the reality of their alienation as long term emigrants who no longer have any real place to call home.

• Clare sa Spéir

Director: Audrey O’Reilly, 2001, 15 mins
Featuring: Sean McGinley, Bríd Ní Neachtáin.

Taken for granted and stuck in a rut, Clare, a housewife, decides to take to the skies. But where does that leave the family she leaves below?

• Lipservice

Director: Paul Mercier, 1998, 18 mins
Featuring: Sean McGinley, Barry Ward, Joan Sheey, Bríd Ní Neachtain.

Lipservice is set on the day of the Oral Irish exam in a north Dublin community school. It is a bizarre day when everyone is speaking a language they don't communicate in. Students are learning Irish phrases by the dozen hoping that some of it will make sense - what's 'stressed out' in Irish?

Venues

• The Cornerhouse cinema
Oxford road (near Oxford rd Stn), Manchester city centre.

Other Events

• Club cuideachta
Conversation in Irish and English to the backdrop of live traditional music. Even if your Irish is not great, you are still welcome. You can sit and listen and meet other Irish speakers.

• Comhrá
Monthly get together for Manchester's Irish speakers, to share a story and a drink. If you can string a few sentences together then come along and join in the debate.