Category Archive for: ‘Issue 33 – Knocknagow Appendices’

Appendix A. – Plot Summary

Tipperary, 1848. The inhabitants of Kilthubber village are happily going about their business. Mat “The Thrasher” Donovan, a stalwart peasant, sings as he ploughs the fields. In Knocknagow, a nearby hamlet, lives a family of prosperous tenant farmers: Maurice Kearney, his wife, and their three daughters. While visiting the seaside town of Tramore, Kearney’s daughter Mary meets Arthur O’Connor, a …

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Appendix B. Cast of Knocknagow (1918)

Mat “The Thrasher” Donovan Brian Magowan Arthur O’Connor Fred O’Donovan Nora Lahy Kathleen Murphy Phil Lahy Arthur Shields Pender J. M. Carre Billy Heffernan Breffni O’Rourke Father O’Carroll Valentine Roberts Barney “Wattletoes” Broderick Patrick O’Donnell Maurice Kearney Dermot O’Dowd Henry Lowe George T. Larchett Sir Garrett Butler Charles Power Mary Kearney Nora Clancy Bessie Morris Alyce Keating Mrs Kearney Peggy …

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Appendix C. Intertitles

Intertitle 1. [INDISTINCT] The Film Company of Ireland, Ltd. announces that Knocknagow is produced by arrangement with JAMES DUFFY & CO. Ltd. / Copyright Owners / Dublin. Copyright 1918 by ELLEN SULLIVAN. Intertitle 2. Produced by the FILM COMPANY OF IRELAND IN IRELAND by Irish Men and Women. Intertitle 3. As this old tale unfolds there are waiting you neither …

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Appendix D. Press cuttings

“Knocknagow: Filming of Kickham’s famous Novel: What Period? Interesting Point for Irish Historians,” The Irish Limelight (Dublin) (May 1917), 6. “KNOCKNAGOW,” the great picture play of the year for Ireland, and the Irish in all parts of the world, is now under way. Fred O’Donovan, of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s premiere actor, has consented to supervise the production of this, …

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Appendix F. Film Company of Ireland filmography

Puck Fair Romance (1916, dir. J. M. Kerrigan) Woman’s Wit (1916, dir. J. M. Kerrigan) Widow Malone (1916, dir. J. M. Kerrigan) The Miser’s Gift (1916, dir. J. M. Kerrigan) Food of Love (1916, dir. J. M. Kerrigan) An Unfair Love Affair (1916 or 1917, dir. J. M. Kerrigan) O’Neill of the Glen (1916, dir. J. M. Kerrigan) The Eleventh …

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Appendix G. Typescript of Knock-na-gow, or The Homes of Tipperary with manuscript annotations

Wharton Releasing Corporation Records, ca. 1916–1923, Division of Rare and Manuscripts Collections, Cornell University Library. #3924 Box 1. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Note: Unsigned marginal annotations and insertions are given in italics. Deleted text is marked with strikethrough. ——————– Page 1 – Reel 1 MAIN Reel 1 (Art) KNOCK-NA-GOW or the HOMES …

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Appendix H. Intertitle Artwork

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Appendix E. Publicity Materials

       

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