A lovely article from David Dunlop on a few Bunting related projects that came to fruition this year – new books from David Byers and Claire Mitchell, as well as a reference to the Dearcán Media documentary Beart Bunting, produced for TG4 and the BBC with ILBF support. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/the-history-of-the-harp-that-sheds-light-on-a-forgotten-part-of-protestant-history/492343249.html
Beart Bunting will be re-broadcast on BBC2 on Sunday 16th April at 10pm.
In Beart Bunting six of the finest traditional musicians in Ireland join with Strabane Brass Band to explore and perform a neglected part of the Edward Bunting collection – a manuscript of mainly military music such as regimental marches and quick-steps collected alongside traditional Irish airs and tunes – reflecting the turbulent political reality of…
Mná na Talún is a four part series following four female farmers over the course of a single farming year: Úna Ní Bhroin has spent 20 years building up Beechlawn Organic farm in Ballinasloe along with her husband Pádraig; Hannah McNelis is a young, enterprising sheep farmer on the Derry-Donegal border; Bríd Ní hIcí aims…
The Derry Girls’ hilarious take on teen antics in the 1990s has generated international interest in all that is unique and different about the people of Derry City. In Ceathrar Cailíní Dhoire (Four Derry Girls) we follow four former pupils of Thornhill College in the city – the inspiration for the fictional girls’ school in…
Táin Bó Cualinge is an ambitious animated rendering of one of Ireland’s most important epic tales, based on Darach Ó Scolaí’s approach to the original Irish language text, alongside the animation skills of John McCloskey, the multiple award-winning author and illustrator / artistic director of the project respectively. The focus of this version of The…
Beart Bunting will feature as part of IMBOLC 23 in Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin. Strabane Brass Band will perform music from the documentary with Conor Caldwell and Lauren Ní Néill, and selected clips from the film will also feature.
Always great to catch up with Colm on Ruaille Buaille, to talk about Beart Bunting on this occasion, prior to the broadcast of the documentary on TG4.