College students on a research overseas in Eire in 2021 on the website of The Quiet Man movie in Cong, County Mayo.
On this episode of Talking of … Faculty of Charleston, we’ve got a terrific dialog about Irish books and flicks. Our company are Joe Kelly, director of Irish and Irish American Research and Colleen Glenn, director of movie research on the Faculty. The pair met whereas enjoying college softball and shortly turned buddies. Together with her data of Irish movies, Glenn turned a pure addition to his study-abroad journeys with college students to Eire.
“Once we do these visits, the scholars observe our discussions of movies, like Within the Title of the Father, they usually’re actually in a position to see the panorama and the tradition that impressed the film they noticed on the massive display screen,” Glenn says.
On the podcast, they recount a few of their journeys round Eire, the place they emphasize places corresponding to Dublin, Galway, Connemara and Belfast featured in Irish movies. Movies mentioned embody The Quiet Man, Michael Collins and Banshees of Inisherin, amongst others that illustrate the socio-political historical past and cultural id of Eire. The episode additionally touches on vital Irish cinematic actions and celebrates the storytelling legacy and literary richness of Irish tradition.
The way in which Kelly describes the panorama and the novels are a transparent indicator of his data and love for the nation. He’s an in-demand professor for a motive.
“John Huston did a movie model of The Useless, which is a really quiet story,” Kelly says. “And it ends with this stunning scene the place Gabriel Conroy is searching the window on the snow falling onto the streets of Dublin, and he imagines it falling throughout the mutinous Shannon waves and the bathroom of Allen and out onto the crooked crosses within the graveyard the place Michael Furey lay buried. It’s essentially the most stunning prose I’ve ever learn, and it’s a completely stunning 10 minutes of cinematography, too.”
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Joe Kelly, director of Irish and Irish American Research on the Faculty, has been finding out and writing about Irish literature for the reason that Nineties. Within the final 15 years, he’s been writing narrative histories about American democracy. His subsequent guide, The Greatest Lie: A Hundred Years of American Fascism, 1818-1918, will probably be out subsequent 12 months.
Colleen Glenn, director of movie research on the Faculty, teaches programs on movie historical past and American cinema in addition to particular subject programs, corresponding to Irish Cinema & Hollywood Auteurs. Along with co-editing an anthology on stardom, she has revealed articles on Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart and different movie stars.
Irish films mentioned:
The Quiet Man (1952)
My Left Foot (1989)
The Area (1990)
The Commitments (1991)
The Crying Recreation (1992)
Within the Title of the Father (1993)
Michael Collins (1996)
Waking Ned Divine (1998)
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
As soon as (2007)
Starvation ( 2008)
Philomena (2013)
’71 (2014)
Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Small Issues Like These (2024)
