Direction: Bob Quinn

Direction Bob Quinn

Plot This is a quartet of documentary films. The films dismissed as myth the popular belief in “Celtic” origins of the inhabitants of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Asturias, Brittany and Galicia...

Direction Bob Quinn

Cast Donal McCann · Margaret Fegan · Peadar Lamb

Plot At the bishop's house, the bishop reads from an advance copy of a novel 'Budawanny: A Bishop's Tale' by Thomas Connor, with a statement on the flap saying that it...

Direction Bob Quinn

Cast Donal McCann · Margaret Fegan · Ray McBride · Peadar Lamb

Plot A love story is revealed through conversations between an elderly bishop and a younger priest in a 'retreat' house catering for members of religious orders. The bishop is a returned...

Direction Bob Quinn

Cast Cyril Cusack · Donal McCann · Niall Toibin · Mairead Ni Chonghaile

Plot A potting maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardai in Connemara. This film, made in Connemara and involving its people, involves the trials and tribulations of the elusive...

Direction Bob Quinn

Cast Seán Bán Breathnach · John Arden · Caitlín Ní Dhonnchú · Tomas Mac Lochlann

Plot In the Connemara Gaeltacht, an English-speaking director is producing a stage presentation of the life of Art O’Laoire (Arthur Leary) with a group of Irish-speaking actors. He decides on a...