Ireland

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

Here is a brief filmography that I have recently written to memory.

Title: Michael Collins
Year: 1996
Plot: In 1916, during the uprising known as the Easter Uprising, Irish revolutionaries surrendered after six days as opposed to at the headquarters located in Dublin, the overwhelming military might of the British Army. Among the revolutionary leaders only to Eamon de Valera, a U.S. citizen, is spared the firing squad ..

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

Title: Angela's Ashes
Year: 1999
Plot: Frank McCourt, was born and raised in America, but his blood is Irish. The story of a family told by one of the protagonists, a journey through Ireland of the '30s. The misery and poverty with the spirit of having 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 a lottery, but soon after discovered the excitement dies. Some villagers find him and try to incassre the prize in his place ..

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

Title: The Commitments
Year: 1991
Plot: Jimmy Rabitti through newspaper advertisement, can form a complex soul, trying to make his fortune. But there will be disappointments.

Title: In the name of the father
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Gerry Conlon and his father were arrested for an attack by the IRA (Northern Irish Independence Party) at a pub that has caused many victims. Despite the evidence of their innocence are sentenced. Only 14 years after the process will be reopened.

Title: The Boxer
Year: 1997
Plot: After having spent fourteen years in jail as an IRA member, Danny finds himself back in Belfast where the boxing world and his ex-girlfriend who is married and has a son, but still loves him.

Title: Dancing at Lughnasa
Year: 1998
Synopsis: Summer 1936. A Ballybeg, a village in County Donegal in Ireland, the family lives Mundy, five unmarried sisters and a brother, Jack, a Catholic missionary priest in Africa. There is also Michael, the teenage son of Christina, the youngest, who was not married, defying the strict moral environment. Twenty-five years passed in Africa, has announced the return of Jack and the group goes to town for it.

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

Title: The Field
Year: 1990
Plot: A 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 of the place ever.

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The day is still foggy kisser and so we decided to visit Londonderry. The idea of trespassing in Northern Ireland does not make us mad but curious to see the city takes us through the hundreds of miles away.

We park the car near the center and decide to walk across the wall that surrounds the heart of the city. The impression that leaves us Derry is very different from what we left Belfast last year. Derry is a lively, modern and at times very English while retaining the nuances very marked in Ireland that makes really nice.

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

The feeling is completely different, leaving the center and walked to the Sunday Bloody Sunday Memorial. The neighborhood is marked by numerous murals (like those in West Belfast) and written extolling the struggle and to 'IRA Our memory runs immediately to the songs and films that dealt with the theme of troubles.

Let Derry after a rather amusing mistake in the payment of parking and head back to Ireland (the Republic) to Buncrana. The beach that you see on your left before the country is spectacular and the sun that now dominates the sky requires us a break. We continue to Buncrana where we stop for lunch very late.

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

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