There’s a little Filum fun at the Spotted Dog this coming Monday with Irish Destiny – ‘The Great Spectacular Film Of The War In Ireland’. A little clip from the old 1926 film is above. According to the Wikipedia blurb, the film has quite an unusual back-story in once being lost but then found again:
Irish Destiny is a 1926 directed by George Dewhurst and written by Isaac Eppel to mark the tenth anniversary of the Easter rising.
The film was considered lost for many years until in 1991 a single surviving nitrate print was located in the US Library of Congress by the Irish Film Institute’s Irish Film Archive who had the film transferred to safety stock and restored. The Irish Film Institute then commissioned a new score for the film by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
We’ll be watching it at 8pm in the Spotted Dog on Warwick St this Monday 23rd August. Hopefully see you then!
