Download PDF by Mark Connelly: The IRA on Film and Television: A History

By Mark Connelly

ISBN-10: 0786447362

ISBN-13: 9780786447367

The Irish Republican military (IRA) has for many years pursued the target of unifying its native land right into a unmarried sovereign kingdom, finishing British rule in Northern eire. through the years, the IRA has been dramatized in movies directed by means of John Ford (The Informer), Carol Reed (Odd guy Out), David Lean (Ryan’s Daughter), Neil Jordan (Michael Collins), etc. Such foreign movie stars as Liam Neeson, James Cagney, Richard Gere, James Mason and Anthony Hopkins have portrayed IRA individuals alternately as heroic patriots, psychotic terrorists and tormented rebels.
This paintings analyzes celluloid depictions of the IRA from the 1916 Easter emerging to the peace means of the Nineteen Nineties. themes comprise America’s function in developing either the IRA and its cinematic photograph, the organization’s short organization with the Nazis, and demanding reception of IRA movies in eire, Britain and the United States.

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