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The documentary will be followed by panel discussion with Director Alan Gilsenan and Executive Producers Des Geraghty and Noírín Greene.A powerfully engaging feature documentary, based primarily on the writings of James Connolly, the film was created to inspire and enlighten a contemporary audience about James Connolly, his life and his ideas. An iconic presence on the landscape of Irish socialism and republicanism, the name of James Connolly looms large in the trade union movement and wherever radical left-wing politics are espoused. The film tries to place Connolly’s radical ideas and many political achievements against the landscape of the contemporary world as well as documenting his more prominent role in the 1916 Easter Rising.
As well as many distinguished commentators, union activists and historians, the film also features many songs and poems - spoken and sung by contemporary artists such as Christy Moore, Stephen Rea, piper David Power, singers Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Esosa Ighodaro as well as Connolly’s great great grand-daughter Tamsin Iona Connolly Heron.
Acclaimed actor Terry O’Neill performs the words of Connolly.
The film aims to reclaim Connolly’s story as well as invoking his important social vision - with a clear eye on how it resonates in our contemporary time - an era when even democracy itself appears under threat.
Director & Writer: Alan Gilsenan
Producer & Archive Researcher: Martin Mahon
Executive Producers: Des Geraghty & Noírín Greene
Editor: Bjorn Mac Giolla
Cameraman: Ronan Fox
Music: Brendan Jenkinson
Sound Recordist: Kieran Horgan
Graphic Designer: John Foley
A Yellow Asylum Films Production for the James Connolly Foundation for Educational Equality
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The Cornmarket, Wexford, Wexford, Ireland Y35 X5HF, Ireland
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