For Your Bhreithniú

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Aithrí/Penance’.

Derry based film maker Tom Collins’ acclaimed Irish language feature film starring Peter Coonan, Barry Barnes, Barry McGovern and Gerard McSorely will have its television premiere on TG4 this Easter Saturday at 8.55pm.

Shot in Derry and Donegal and inspired by a short story from Pádraic Ó Conaire, ‘Aithrí’ tells the story of a priest who recruits an impressionable teenager to fight the British in 1916.

TG4

Thanks Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

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10 thoughts on “For Your Bhreithniú

  1. Shayna

    I just watched, “Black 47” on Netflix – as Gaeilge/English. Stephen Rea/Jim Broadbent/Hugo Weaving/James Frechville. It was a brutal and tragic story during The Famine. As Gaeilge, a film made in our language, set a lifetime later – sure. An Gaeltacht in Donegal – they were never involved in The Rising. Also – I haven’t seen the movie?

  2. Fearganainm

    If you row out to the island of Gola, Shayna, you’ll see a monument there to the two Donegal men, Patrick McGinley and Charles Duggan, who were aboard the ‘Asgard’ when that boat brought arms into Howth in 1914. I think you’ll agree that that event did indeed have a connection to the Easter Rising of 1916. There were other people from Donegal involved too.

    1. Shayna

      Hey Fearg – I’m kinda guessing you’d be from Tír Conaill? The Donegal types , what with the fishing and boats and such, sure. Of course – in 1914. It was the Béal Féirste man who didn’t have a great day in Cork, that screwed us.

  3. Fearganainm

    Not Tír Conaill, Shayna – Cork out. If we were making a naughty list then Eoin MacNeill and Bulmer Hobson would have to be at the top of it.

    If you get to watch Aithrí there’s a pursuit scene at around the fourth minute which includes a peeler in a checked shirt. In another life, in June 1972, the guy who plays that peeler carried a dustbin full of blowy stuff into Derry’s Guildhall and wrecked it. After a stint faoi ghlas ag Gallaibh he was elected to Derry City Council as a Sinn Féin councillor. I’m sure he’d be a more interesting interviewee than Liam Neeson.

    1. Shayna

      The resilience of Irish Republicans can surely be manifest in Bernadette McAliskey/Devlin. She was shot 14 times in her chest by the RUC/Collusion Loyalist Paramiltary/MI5/MI6. Amazingly, she survived. Her daughter was shot (only twice) whilst she was in Gibralter, by The British Army (MI5). I was their neighbour – in country terms, a farmland away.

      1. Otis Blue

        Wasn’t it Mairead Farrell who was shot in Gibraltar?

        Don’t think she was McAliskey’s daughter.

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