Cork Midsummer Festival Brochure
Cork Midsummer Festival Brochure
Cork Midsummer Festival Brochure
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Opening Gala Event<br />
A limited number of premium tickets are available<br />
for €75. This includes a balcony seat and a pre-event<br />
Lord Mayor’s reception, starting at 6.30pm, where<br />
refreshments will be served.<br />
Ireland | Music | Film<br />
Irish Destiny (1926)<br />
Silent Film with Live Orchestral Score composed by<br />
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. As part of full length concert.<br />
Performed by composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin with the<br />
Irish Destiny Film Orchestra, conducted by Proinnsías Ó<br />
Duinn.<br />
A passionate love story set against Ireland’s War of<br />
Independence, Irish Destiny is an epic full length film<br />
made in Ireland. Released in 1926 to critical acclaim in<br />
Ireland and the USA, and banned in Britain, Irish Destiny<br />
was screened to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the<br />
1916 Rising.<br />
Our dashing hero, Denis O’Hara, leaves his lover and<br />
family to gallop across the country to deliver an ambush<br />
warning to IRA HQ in Dublin. Captured by the Black and<br />
Tans and interned in the Curragh POW camp, his school<br />
teacher lover Moira Barry and family are distraught,<br />
assuming he has been killed in action. Dramatic young<br />
lovers, evil poteen-makers, marching troops, and rare<br />
actual newsreel of the burning of <strong>Cork</strong> in December 1920<br />
and of Dublin’s Customs House in May 1921 combine to<br />
create a remarkable record of Irish society and political<br />
sensibility in an emerging nation.<br />
The performance features the full length screening now<br />
restored to its original hand tinted and toned glory (78<br />
minutes) with live orchestral performance of the score<br />
by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, commissioned by the Irish Film<br />
Institute in 1993. The orchestra is conducted by Proinnsías<br />
Ó Duinn. Previously screened in London, Paris, and<br />
Dublin’s NCH, this is the first live performance of the film<br />
with score in <strong>Cork</strong>. Additional performances by Mícheál<br />
Ó Súilleabháin (piano), Kenneth Edge (saxophone) and<br />
orchestra will complete the programme.<br />
Presented in association with the Irish Film Institute<br />
<strong>Cork</strong> City Hall<br />
Saturday 12 June, 8pm<br />
Tickets €30/€20<br />
Duration: 120 mins with interval<br />
Bar open for pre-show drinks from 7pm<br />
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