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- Title
- The Irish Connection
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This high-rating 1999 documentary follows Gary McCormick to Ireland to investigate "those strands which tie" Kiwis to the Emerald Isle, from Dublin to the north, where his forebears originated in the 1870s. He meets locals, (musicians, tinkers, playwrights, scuba divers) and Kiwi expats, and talks The Troubles, Celtic Tigers, and why Irish emigrated to Aotearoa. Irish Connection was another collaboration between McCormick and director Bruce Morrison (Heartland, Raglan by the Sea). Companion t...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1999
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-irish-connection-1999
- Related subjects
- literature / peter sheridan / poorhouse / irish / ireland / settler / james joyce / galway / sheep / pint / tim stopford / scuba / connemara / folk music / riverdance / belfast / troubles / northern ireland / bombing / ira / irish republican army / ken maginnis / omagh / a&p show / bruce batten / dunedin / terrorism / terrorist / kenneth maginnis / a and p show / the troubles / tinker / francis barrett / flute / gaelic / nz on air / new zealand on air / the chieftains / dublin / temple bar / guinness / ardoyne / prince andrew / tinkers / travellers / francie barrett / steve simmons / irish music / phil werahiko / boxer / bruce wood / westport / chieftains / matt molloy / irish dancing
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