Look at Ireland

Title

Look at Ireland

Genre

Feature

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:52:14

Description

Mike Harrison(?) takes a driving holiday to Ireland and looks at getting there, traditional food and drink, places to visit, music, and visitors’ fears over safety. He speaks with a local bus driver cutting his peat; a horse and cart driver; manager at the Guinness factory; Irish champion salmon fisher Dick Willis; curator of the Yeats Tower Francis McNally; Jo Byrne of the Irish Tourist Board; Jane O’Callaghan of Lornfield House Hotel; Mervyn Johnson of the Blarney Estate. Includes poetry of W.B. Yeats spoken by Francis McNally. Visits Irish Cultural Institute, Guinness factory, Yeats’ Tower, Blarney Castle and Stone. Musical piece on Eirean pipes played.

Contributors

Mike Harrison(?); Dick Willis; Francis McNally; Jane O’Callaghan; Mervyn Johnson; Jo Byrne

Keywords

Ireland; Poets; Tourism; Holidays; Poetry; Angling; W. B. Yeats; Personal safety; Guinness; Stone

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