Ireland

As in literature, the cinema has often worked in Ireland is linked to its history (often tragic if we think of contemporary history) and lifestyle and some stereotypes.

Here is a brief filmography recently that I have drawn from memory.

Title: Michael Collins
Year: 1996
Plot: In 1916, during the revolt known as the Easter Uprising, Irish revolutionaries surrendered after having opposed for six days, at the headquarters of items in Dublin, the English army overwhelming military force. Among the revolutionary leaders only to Eamon de Valera, an American citizen, is spared the firing squad ..

Title: The Secret of Roan
Year: 1994
Synopsis: Fiona, the mother of an orphan, goes to live in my grandparents' house on the west coast of Ireland. From his bedroom window to see the island of Roan Inish, which comes from his family and to which are linked to some legends: the brother of Fiona, slipped into the sea with the cradle during transfer from the island, would still be alive, and inhabit the island. Fiona tries to convince the grandparents to return to the island of Roan.

Title: Angela's Ashes
Year: 1999
Synopsis: Frank McCourt was born and raised in America, but his blood is Irish. The story of a family narrated by one of the protagonists, a journey through Ireland of the '30s. The misery and poverty seen in the spirit of a child, without hypocrisy or false truth.

Title: Bloody Sunday
Year: 2002
Synopsis: One of the deepest wounds of the conflict between Catholics and Irish: the day that marked three decades ago - the beginning of a long and painful civil war. A demonstration ended in blood, an army that defended the law of violence. The story of that day and the testimonies of the protagonists in a film not to forget the injustices of the past and to build tomorrow's justice.

Title: Ned Svelgiati
Year: 1998
Synopsis: Ned Devine is the lucky winner of first prize lottery, but soon after discovered the excitement dies. Some of his countrymen and try to discover it incassre the prize in its place ..

Title: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Year: 2006
Synopsis: At the beginning of the twentieth century in Ireland, two brothers, Teddy and Danien along with their friend Dan, driven by their patriotism, enlist in the army to fight for the independence of their country.

Title: The Commitments
Year: 1991
Plot: Jimmy Rabitti be posted on journalism, can form a complex of soul music, to try to make a fortune. But there will be disappointments.

Title: In the name of the father
Year: 1993
Plot: Gerry Conlon and his father are arrested for an attack by the IRA (Northern Irish independence party) to a pub that has caused many casualties. Despite the evidence of their innocence is condemned. Only 14 years after the process is reopened.

Title: The Boxer
Year: 1997
Plot: After spending fourteen years in prison as a member of the IRA, Danny back to Belfast where he finds the world of boxing and his ex-girlfriend who is married and has one child, but she still loves him.

Title: Dancing at Lughnasa
Year: 1998
Synopsis: Summer 1936. In Ballybeg, a small town in the county of Donegal Irish, Mundy family lives, five unmarried sisters and a brother, Jack, a Catholic priest missionary in Africa. Then there is Michael, the teenage son of Christina, the youngest, who was not married, defying the strict moral environment. After twenty-five years in Africa, has announced the return of Jack, and the whole group goes to the village to welcome him.

Title: Rebel Hearts
Year: 1992
Synopsis: End of the last century. Joseph and Shannon, two young Irish people from different social classes, they share the same dreams. They decide to leave for America to find land to cultivate. Arriving in Boston, Joseph, is taken for some time to boxing, but eventually decided to leave for Oklahoma, where, after so many sacrifices will be able to realize their dreams.

Title: The Field
Year: 1990
Synopsis: A little masterpiece! A film that highlights the harshness of life of the Irish people after the Great Famine that struck the island in 1848, perhaps the best representation of rural life in the place ever.

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The day still has pittosto foggy and so we decide to visit Londonderry. The idea of ​​trespassing in Northern Ireland does not make us crazy, but the curiosity to see the city takes us through the hundreds of miles away.

We park the car near the center and we decide to walk the entire wall that surrounds the heart of the city. The impression that we left Derry is very different from what we left Belfast last year. Derry is a lively, modern and at times very English but retains shades of very accentuated in Ireland that make really nice.

The pubs are fabulous and the architecture of their refined interior. The people we met were very courteous and polite.

The feeling changes completely leaving the center and heading toward the Sunday Bloody Sunday Memorial. The district is marked by numerous murals (similar to those of West Belfast) and written extolling the struggle and to 'Our memory is soon directed IRA songs and the film that dealt with the issue of troubles.

We leave Derry after a pretty funny mistake in the payment of the parking lot and head back to Ireland (the Republic) to Buncrana. The beach is found on the left before the country is spectacular and the sun which now dominates the sky, for a halt. We continue to Buncrana where we stop for lunch very late.

We go back to Donegal Town and we stop for one last kite to the beach near Mountcharles. We expect the last night in Ireland away from Dublin airport and we will get back to reality.

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