Introduction: Ireland’s Own Film
Click here to view Knocknagow (1918) In January 1920, an Irish-made film received the following tribute from a leading Dublin newspaper: It is common talk among exhibitors in Ireland that…
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…
The Making of an Irish Nationalist: James Mark Sullivan and the Film Company of Ireland in America
Click here to view Knocknagow (1918) Film producer James Mark Sullivan (fig. 1) was born in Kerry in 1873 and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1882.…
“Pointing a Topical Moral at the Present”: Watching Knocknagow in 1918
Click here to view Knocknagow (1918) Introduction In his seminal account of Irish silent cinema, Kevin Rockett locates the Film Company of Ireland’s Knocknagow in relation to the politics of…
The Film Company of Ireland and the Irish-American Press
Click here to view Knocknagow (1918) During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, authenticity—the “genuine” and the “real”, as it was often termed—was an ongoing concern for Irish-themed entertainment in…
“For the honour of old Knock-na-gow I must win”: Representing Sport in Knocknagow (1918)
Click here to view Knocknagow (1918) Knocknagow (1918) has a special significance for followers of sport in Ireland.[1] Most immediately, it contains one of the earliest surviving depictions of hurling…
Irish National Discourse in the Poems and Songs in Knocknagow (1918)
Click here to view Knocknagow (1918) Global integration was greatly accelerated during the second half of the nineteenth century by the development of new communication techniques. There was a steady…