Author Archive for: ‘Kevin Rockett’

Knocknagow, the Film Company of Ireland, and Other Irish Historical Films, 1911–1920

Click here to view Knocknagow (1918) Introduction Ireland occupies a marginal position in world cinema.[1] Indeed, despite the expansion in the Irish film industry during the last twenty years, this is as true of the 2010s as it was of the 1910s. Unlike in most other European countries there has been no language barrier to insulate the country from the …

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