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1916 The Irish Rebellion to screen at Irish Film Festa 2016

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The 9th edition of Irish Film Festa (7 – 10 April, 2016) will screen 1916 The Irish Rebellion, as a part of the special programme dedicated to the Centenary of the Easter Rising, which in 1916 started the process that led to the Irish independence from the United Kingdom and the constitution of the Republic of Ireland. The film will also be streamed live around the world to Irish embassies and consulates on March 16th from a Gala event at the National Concert Hall in Dublin

1916 The Irish Rebellion, narrated by Liam Neeson, is a documentary which examines the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin and the subsequent events that led to the establishment of an independent Irish State and indirectly to the breakup of the British Empire. The film aims to place the Irish Rising in its European and global contexts as anti-colonialism found its voice in the wake of the First World War.

«1916 is a significant documentary — Liam Neeson said — As an Irishman, it is of course part of my history. The film puts the Easter Rising in a broader more international context than has ever been done, and shows how it inspired similar movements around the world. What attracted me most was that the film also focuses on the personal stories of those involved. These stories are very human and powerful.»

Liam Neeson, born in Ballymena (County Antrim), is going to be honored at this year’s IFTA (Irish Film & Television Academy) Awards, on April 9th, for his outstanding contribution to international cinema.

1916 The Irish Rebellion is an initiative of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and it’s produced by COCO Television.

 
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Irish Film Festa 2016 celebrates the Centenary of the Easter Rising

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The 9th edition of IRISH FILM FESTA will take place from 7 to 10 April, 2016, at the Casa del Cinema in Rome: dedicated to screening the best of contemporary Irish cinema, the festival will showcase Irish feature films, documentaries and short films, and provide conferences and public interviews with special guests from the Irish film sector.

Fifteen short films have been selected for the competition, ten in the live action category and five in the animation one.

IRISH FILM FESTA 2016 will also feature a special programme dedicated  to the Centenary of the Easter Rising, which in 1916 started the process that led to the Irish independence from the United Kingdom and the constitution of the Republic of Ireland.

This Ireland 1916-2016 programme includes a selection of episodes from 1916 Seachtar na Cásca (The Easter Seven), a seven part historical documentary series narrated by Brendan Gleeson and dedicated to the lives of the seven men who were the signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation: Thomas J. Clarke, Sean Mac Diarmada, James Connolly, Patrick H. Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, Thomas MacDonagh, and Joseph Plunkett. The series is produced by Abú Media Films for TG4 in association with the BAI and is directed by Dathaí Keane; the script was written by Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh.

IRISH FILM FESTA will also screen the nine short films produced by the Irish Film Board under the After ’16 one-off scheme as part of the Centenary commemorations. The After ’16 shorts are: A Father’s Letter by Joe Dolan, A Terrible Hollabaloo by Ben O’Connor, Baring Arms by Colm Quinn, Goodbye, Darling by Elena Doyle, Granite and Chalk by Patrick Hodgins, Mr. Yeats and the Beastly Coins by Laura McNicholas and Ann Marie Hourihane, My Life for Ireland by Kieron J. Walsh, The Cherishing by Dave Tynan, e The Party by Andrea Harkin.

This year’s Irish classic is Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins, which will be screened in Rome 20 years after it won the Golden Lion Award at the 1996 Venice Film Festival where its star Liam Neeson was voted best actor. The film, wich took Jordan more than a decade of work to write the script, tells the last six years of Michael Collins’ life, from the Rising of 1916 to the ambush that killed him in 1922.

The full programme of IRISH FILM FESTA 2016 will be announced in the next weeks.

1916 Seachtar na Cásca to screen at Irish Film Festa 2016

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1916 Seachtar na Cásca (The Easter Seven) is a seven part historical documentary series narrated by Brendan Gleeson and dedicated to the lives of the seven men who were the signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation: Thomas J. Clarke, Sean Mac Diarmada, James Connolly, P H Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, Thomas MacDonagh, and Joseph Plunkett.

The 9th edition of Irish Film Festa (7 – 10 April, 2016) will screen a selection of episodes from Seachtar na Cásca, as a part of the special programme dedicated  to the Centenary of the Easter Rising, which in 1916 started the process that led to the Irish independence from the United Kingdom and the constitution of the Republic of Ireland.

The series is produced by Abú Media Films for TG4 in association with the BAI and is directed by Dathaí Keane; the script was written by Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh.

Writing the Rising in Rome, a conference on the 1916 Easter Rising

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Writing the Rising is the international and interdisciplinary conference which will take place on January 14th and 15th at the Sala Conferenze “Ignazio Ambrogio”, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre.

The event is dedicated to the Centenary of the Easter Rising, which in 1916 started the process that led to the Irish independence from the United Kingdom and the constitution of the Republic of Ireland.

Bobby McDonagh, Irish Ambassador to Italy, will give the opening speech. Among the line-up of speakers, Roy Foster (Oxford University), Irish historian and author of the official biography of William Butler Yeats; Ben Levitas (Goldsmiths, University of London), author of The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1916; and Roisin Higgins (Teeside University), author of Transforming 1916: Meaning, Memory and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising.

On January 15th, at 16.15, Writing the Rising will also held a preview of the next IRISH FILM FESTA‘s special 1916 event, and the screening of the first episode of RTÉ’s new drama series Rebellion, which tells the story of 1916 from the point of view of the ordinary people of Dublin. Colin Teevan (Birkbeck, University of London), Irish academic and screenwriter of Rebellion, will attend the screening.

Writing the Rising is organised by CRISIS – Centro Ricerca Studi Irlandesi e Scozzesi Università Roma Tre, directed by John McCourt, in association with the Irish Embassy to Italy and the College of Saint Isidore.

Writing the Rising
January 14 – 15, 2016
Sala Conferenze “Ignazio Ambrogio” via del Valco di S. Paolo, 19 – Roma
Free entrance

The full programme of Writing the Rising can be consulted HERE.

9th Irish Film Festa | 7 – 10 April 2016

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The 9th edition of Irish Film Festa will take place from 7th to 10th April 2016, at the Casa del Cinema in Rome.

A section of the Festival will be dedicated to the Centenary of the Easter Rising, which in 1916 started the process that led to the Irish independence from the United Kingdom and the constitution of the Republic of Ireland.

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