Jimmy’s Hall, Irish Cinema and the Telling of History

Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall reorganises heritage principles to produce a narrative that allows for utopian moments to appear within an otherwise conventionally tragic retelling of Irish history. In certain ways, it also reflects a very specific left wing British view of Irish history (as a textbook cas...

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Main Author: Ruth Barton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2016-07-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
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Online Access:https://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/rise/article/view/1261