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Title The Irish empire / a Little Bird, Café, Hilton Cordell Productions production for RTE, BBC Northern Ireland, SBS Independent.

Publication Info. West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [200?]
©1999

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction DVD  DVD 909.0491 GILSENAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 941.5 IR4 DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - DVDs  DVD 841.5 IRISH    DUE 04-12-24
Description 2 videodiscs (263 min.) : sound, color with some b/w segments. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD ; Dolby digital 2.0, 4:3 "letterbox," NTSC all regions.
Performer Narrator, Fiona Shaw.
Credits Directors, Alan Gilsenan (pt. 1, 5), David Roberts (pt. 2, 4), Dearbhla Walsh (pt. 3) ; music, Deborah Mollison ; photography, Peter Dorney ... [et al.] ; series producer, Ritchie Cogan ; executive producers, Andre Singer, James Mitchell, Chris Hilton.
Note Based on an original idea by Patrick Bishop.
DVD release of the television series. Art and design: WinStar TV & Video, Inc., c2000.
"Produced in association with Australian Film Finance Corporation, Programme Rights Company with assistance from NSW Film and TV Office."
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary Explores the history of the Irish experience abroad as seen by Irish migrants themselves and as others perceive them. Covers the diversity and scale of Irish migration, the rise of Irish emigrants from slaves and convicts to plantation owners and influential politicians, Ireland's women emigrants, religious beliefs of Irish emigrants, and how the reality of Ireland today differs from the Ireland imagined by emigrants and their descendents.
Contents Pt. 1. The scattering -- Pt. 2. Building the world -- Pt. 3. A world apart -- Pt. 4. Keeping the faith -- Pt. 5. Dreams of home.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Ireland -- History.
Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Irish -- Foreign countries -- History.
National characteristics, Irish.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Added Author Gilsenan, Alan. Director.
Walsh, Dearbhla. Director.
Shaw, Fiona, 1958- Narrator.
Little Bird (Firm)
Café Productions Ltd.
Hilton Cordell & Associates.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann.
BBC Northern Ireland.
SBS Independent.
WinStar TV and Video (Firm)
Added Title Scattering.
Building the world.
World apart.
Keeping the faith.
Dreams of home.
ISBN 9780769788623
0769788629
Standard No. 032031446397
Music No. D4463 Kultur
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