Irish Destiny (1926)

Irish Destiny (1926) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
78 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1926 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
George Dewhurst

Written By:
I.J. Eppel

Actors:
Paddy Dunne Cullinan ..... Denis O'Hara
Frances Macnamarra ..... Moira Barry, a schoolteacher and Denis' fiancée
Daisy Campbell ..... Mrs. O'Hara, Denis' mother
Clifford Pembroke ..... Mr. O'Hara, Denis' father
Brian Magowan ..... Gilbert Beecher, a gang leader of the poteen-makers
Cathal MacGarvey ..... Shanahan, a jarvey
Evelyn Henchey ..... [later Lady Grace] Kitty Shanahan's daugher
Kit O'Malley ..... Captain Kelly, commandant,Clonmore Battalion, IRA
Valentine Vousden ..... Priest
Tom Flood ..... Intelligence Officer, IRA headquarters
Derek Eppel ..... Schoolboy
Simon Eppel ..... man with cigar at Vaughan's Hotel

Synopsis:

When the notorious 'Black and Tans' arrive at his village of Clonmore, IRA man Denis O'Hara discovers a plan to raid a secret IRA meeting, and he races to Dublin to warn his colleagues. He reaches the city, but is shot and captured by British soldiers. Denis is imprisoned in Kildare, but manages to escape along with his fellow prisoners. Believing him to be dead, his mother goes blind from the shock, and his girlfriend Moira is abducted by fellow villager Beecher, who is in league with the Tans. Denis arrives back in Clonmore just in time to rescue Moira. With the burning of the Customs House in Dublin, the War of Independence is soon over and a truce is reached with the British.

Irish Destiny is a 1926 film made in Ireland, directed by George Dewhurst and written by Isaac Eppel to mark the tenth anniversary of the Easter Rising. The film was considered lost for many years until in 1991 a single surviving nitrate print was located by the Irish Film Institute in the United States' Library of Congress. The institute's archive had the film transferred to safety stock and restored. The institute then commissioned Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin to write a new score for the film. Irish Destiny is the first fiction film that deals with the Irish War of Independence, and the first and only film written and produced by Isaac (Jack) Eppel, a Dublin GP and pharmacist who also enjoyed a career as theater impresario and cinema owner.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 September, 2011.

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