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Fáilte go Conamara

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On the 50th anniversary of the setting up of RTE its time to read this book again.

 
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A Reminder...

 

Now you can personally own a Bob Quinn film.

BUT

If you just want to borrow them, a selection is available in the following Public Libraries in Ireland:
Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dun Laoire/Rathdown, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Offaly, Tallaght, Waterford, Westmeath, the National Library and in most 3rd level colleges.

(There's no catch - just support your local library)

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Archiva Chonamara
 
A photo archive of old & new Irish images
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The Atlantean Irish
 
Book & film trilogy
The historic connection between Ireland & the Orient
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Filmography and DVDs

 

 

1973   

             

  
 
 
Digitally remastered Jan. 2010

Lament for Art O'Laoire


("Caoineadh Airt Uí­ Laoire")
Drama (Colour, 56 mins. 1975)
 
The Museum of Modern Art in Dublin recently featured this film in its long-running "The Moderns" which featured the work of major Irish artists of the past century.

       
€30.00 (inc.P&P)

INFO

 

2008
      


FOR MUSIC LOVERS!

"VOX HUMANA"

   (Featuring the Galway Baroque Singers)

(80 mins)
AWARDS:
Directors Choice (Boston Irish Film festival).
Best Original Approach (Skopje Music on Film Festival)
Audience Award (Galway Film Fleadh)
 
    €24.50 (inc.P&P)

 

 

1981-1998

 

Book revised and reissued 2012 by

Lilliput Press.


 



THE ATLANTEAN QUARTET

The four seminal documentaries on Ireland's maritime relationship with North Africa & the Middle East.
Jacob's TV & Film Award
(Colour, 3 x 50 mins)

Including

Atlantean epilogue: 'Navigatio'
Completing the Circle. Via the Baltic and the Russian rivers, the musical connection between the Irish and the Tatars. Also, how Charlemagne would not have existed without Arab silver.
( Colour, 50 mins)

As shown many times on RTE, 

TG4, Ch. 4, SBS & co.

€34.50 (inc.P&P)

 

 

1977-2007

Digitally remastered Jan. 2010
 

POITÍN

 
 Feature film in the Irish language. (Col. 65 mins)
Digitally remastered on to 35mm with new music by Bill Whelan ("Riverdance"). Subtitled (Colour, 65 mins)
 
PLUS: Pádraic Breathnach interviews the director, Bob Quinn.
                                                                                          
In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
 

 

 

 

€29.50 (inc.P&P)

 

 

1987
 

BUDAWANNY

 
A 'silent movie'. Donal McCann Best actor award at Troia Festival.
Drama (Colour / B & W, 80 mins)
 
"Quinn's best film" - Liam O'Leary
                                                                                                                    
Plus:
'The Island' - documentary shot on Clare Island (1966)
 
 
 
 
 
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1994
 
The Bishop's Story

The Remake of Budawanny

Still starring Donal McCann, this time playing both priest and bishop.
The film as originally written by Bob Quinn

De Facto films            

 

€29.50 (inc.P&P)
 
  

Budawanny

 

€29.50 (inc.P&P)



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2008

           


         "CINEGAEL PARADISO"

                              

'One upon a time in Connemara...'



The story of Cinegael, written & directed by Robert Quinn ('Dead Bodies', 'Cré na Cille', 'Detour', 'Rásaí na Gaillimhe', 'Na Cloigne', 'Primeval' etc.)

 (col. 50 mins)                                                                              

€20.00 (inc. P&P)

 

1975


                            "CLOCH"


         Lighting Camera: Joe Comerford

         Music: Roger Doyle

         Sound Mix: Pat Hayes
         Recordist: C. P.Quinn
         Original Idea: Cliodna Cussen
         Sculptor: James McKenna
         Directed & Edited: Bob Quinn (27 mins. Colour 16mm)
 
"The other outstanding bit of television during last week used no words at all. This was CLOCH, a most imaginative film about sculpture made by Bob Quinn of Cinegael... the film had enormous visual attraction. But what really set it off was the soundtrack, the work of Roger Doyle. He used, instead of words, sounds that ranged from wailing voices to animal noises: whispers, cries, music and the rhythmic tapping of hammers.
 
 
It was  extraordinarily impressive as if, at times, he had caught the very sound of the stone suffering under the sculptors hammer. Another  aspect of this most pleasing film was it showed very clearly how much patient, physically-exhausting, slogging work goes into sculpture in stone".    - Irish Times

€20.00 (inc. P&P)


2006


Music documentary on the ConTempo String Quartet and their impact as Galway's Ensemble-in-Residence, 2003-2006
         (col. 50 mins)

€20.00 (inc.P&P)

   

 
 
 


1996    


The Emigrant Dance 

("Damhsa an Deoraí")


Story of the an emigrant mecca, the Galtymore Ballroom, London.
(Gael Media, Colour, subtitled, 50 mins)

€24.50 (inc.P&P)


2000                

 

"Splanc Deireadh na Gaeltachta"


Last Spark of the Gaeltacht


History of the Civil Rights movement in Galway, with Donncha O h-Éallaithe
(Gael Media, Subtitled, 50 mins)

€24.50 (inc.P&P)


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


1999    

  


          "It Must Be Done Right"    

 


Documentary:

FEATURING Donal McCann

- 'the world's greatest actor (Newsweek)' .

His last public performance.

Prod. De Facto films (Colour, 50 mins)

        

          €24.50 (inc.P&P)

 

 

 

 

1997                

"Graceville"

The 'Connemaras' in Minnesota. The amazing story of the Bishop and the peasants.

(Gael Media, Colour, 50 mins)

€24.50 (inc. P&P)

 


         THEY'LL NEVER SHOW THAT!


Renowned investigative journalist Joseph Mac Anthony details how he revealed corruption in the Dublin Planning Process and had to leave Ireland with his family for Canada. In conversation with Bob Quinn. (2006)



€20.00 (inc.P&P)
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1992

From: Pobal in Deutschland




Conamara emigrants in Germany. (Gael Media, 6 X ½ hour)

AVAILABLE NOW :

"Morris Minor"

Ireland's emigrant Trapp Family

 

€20.00 (inc.P&P)

 


1987     

Pobal in LONDON

(6 x 30 mins)

In nineteen-eighties London there was a building boom which involved much demolition and site clearance.  Enormous amounts of rubbish had to be removed, legally or illegally...

                            

"The Fly-tippers"

€20.00 (inc.P&P)



1975

         

Lilipup

 

Experimental, with artist Brian Bourke

                                                                                 
A 'car'toon
(Colour, 25 mins)

 

 

 

 

 

€20.00 (inc. P&P)

 

 

 

 

1978

 


"Listen!"

Experimental, with composer Roger Doyle

(col. 27 mins)

 

€20.00 (inc.P&P)


 
1981















"Last Days of the Gaeltacht

(Spirit of the Festival Award - Celtic Film Festival)

With Desmond Fennell


€20.00 (inc.P&P)


1978
 


The Family


1979 Documentary on the 'Screamers' in Donegal. So disturbing that RTE would not show it until 1993.

(Colour, 27 mins)


€20.00 (inc.P&P)

 


1979

                   

"CRUINNIÚ NA MBÁD"

 

The re-enactment of the traditional turf-carrying trade between Conamara and Kinvara. It had been thirty years since Johnny Jimmy MacDonnch

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