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  1. Dream Kitchen (1999 Film)

    Director
    Barry Dignam
    Producer
    Barry Dignam; Katherina Fay; Conor McKiernan
    Subject
    Literature

    Fiction short. An allegory on ‘coming out’ set in working-class Dublin. A son comes home to his family to find his father repairing the car, and his mother in the kitchen cooking as usual. As he...

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  2. Thing Most Bruish, A (1997 Film)

    Director
    Colin Downey
    Producer
    Colin Downey
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor found (11/2007).

    Short fiction film. A study of colonialism through the character of Caliban.

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  3. Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone? (1995 Video)

    Director
    Donald Taylor Black
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 124 min., 1996 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    Examines the struggle of the Irish people to create an Irish cinema, and why the familiar cinematic images of Ireland have been created in Britain and Hollywood. Includes interviews with Neil Jordan, Jim...

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  4. Miss Sarajevo (1995 Video)

    Director
    Bill Carter
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 31 min.

    Shows the lives of people in war-torn Sarajevo, focusing on young people and how the Bosnian civil war has disrupted both their educaiton and their social lives.

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  5. H for Hamlet (1994 Film)

    Director
    Vinny Murphy
    Producer
    Yvonne Thunder
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor found (2006).

    Independent low-budget feature film. A contemporary adaptation of Hamlet, retaining Shakespeare’s verse, and set in an urban, alienating Dublin.

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  6. Playboys, The (1992 Film)

    Director
    Gillies MacKinon
    Producer
    Simon Perry; William P. Cartlidge

    Feature film. Set in Ireland in 1957, strong-willed Tara (Wright) is an unmarried mother who refuses to name the father of her child and is therefore seen as shameful by the townsfolk. When a troupe of...

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  7. When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine (1992)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 98 minutes), 14.99 Euros

    This four part series examines the causes and effects of poverty in Ireland, which led to the Great Famine of the 1840s, during which around a million people died. The episodes are as follows: 1. Causes of...

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  8. Hush-A-Bye Baby (1989 Video)

    Director
    Margo Harkin
    Subject
    Media studies; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 80 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    The story of four teenage Irish girls from the Catholic area of Derry raises the issues of abortion and the British presence. Sinéad O’Connor has a cameo part as well as providing the soundtrack.

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  9. Organic Chemistry (2 Parts) (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Oliver Ryan
    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 2 x 60 min., £20 each part

    Shows chemistry techniques involved in the Leaving Certificate chemistry syllabus and is designed to help pupils with their own practical work and also as a revision aid. Part 1 demonstrates the laboratory...

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  10. Cutting Lambing Losses (198 Video)

    Subject
    Veterinary science
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. ? min., 1997 hire: £13.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Highlights the importance of careful management throughout the lambing period, good preparation of the lambing accommodation (including adeqate disinfection and a number of individual pens). Describes...

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