We have just spent a great week filming our new programme provisionally called The music of the Northern Fiddler. We heard an amazing standard of fiddle-playing from our great participants. Many thanks to Maggie Maguire, Dónal McCague, Ellie Nic Fhionnlaigh, Dermy Diamond, Conor Caldwell, Laura Kerr, Dermot McLaughlin, Maurice Bradley, Paddy Glackin, Róisín McGrory, Mairéad…
Dearcán Media is delighted to receive support from the ILBF for two projects in the April commissioning round. Amuigh ar an Fharraige Mór is a 2 x 30 min observational documentary for BBC Gaeilge looking at the fishing tradition in the Gaeltacht village of Magheraroarty and The Music of the Northern Fiddler is a 59′…
There will be a screening of the documentary Cogadh Faoi Cheilt: Scéal an IRB at the Docs Ireland festival in Belfast on 16th June. https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/cogadh-faoi-cheilt-sceal-an-irb-hidden-war-the-story-of-the-irb
Michael Davitt: Radacach will be broadcast on TG4 on Wednesday 29th May at 9:30pm. Re-broadcast on Friday 31st May at 23.20. Produced by Dearcán Media for TG4 with support from the Irish Language Broadcast Fund.
‘Michael Davitt: Radacach‘ will be launched at the Davitt Museum in Strade in Mayo at 7pm on Thursday 25th April 2019. Dearcán Media is extremely grateful for the help and support of the museum staff throughout the making of the documentary, and there can be no more fitting location for the first showing than Davitt’s…
Thirty years of Féile an Phobail, from its humble beginnings in 1988 to its current standing as the largest community arts festival in Ireland, and as a central component of Belfast’s cultural calendar. Producer & director: Deaglán Ó Mocháin Camera: Carl Best, Angus Mitchell Editor: Daithi Connaughton
TG4 is re-broadcasting Votaí do Mhná (Votes for Women) tonight (15.12.18) at 7.15pm. It’s just over 100 years from the 1918 British general election when Constance Markievicz became the first women to be elected to the British parliament. She was interned in Holloway Prison in London when she received the news. In line with Sinn…
Interviewees: Mary Ann Kennedy, Eoghan Neff, Úna Monaghan, Mohsen Amini, Julie Fowlis, Hamish MacLeod, Robbie Greig, Jarlath Henderson, Donald Shaw, John Urquhart, Ruairidh Graham, Lynette Fay, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Corrina Hewat, Máirtín O’Connor, Phil Cunningham, Paddy Glackin, Andy Irvine, Peadar Ó Riada, Dónal Lunny, Hayley Keenan Featuring live music from: Inyal: Oleka Jarlath Henderson: The Boys of the Lough/ The Gatecrasher/ The Wind that Shakes the Barley Moxie: Girl From Space Chris Stout &…