To The Western World
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To The Western World Summary
The travels of John Millington Synge & Jack B. Yeats in the West of Ireland in 1905
TO THE WESTERN WORLD is a dramatised documentary which reconstructs a journey made by two Irishmen across Connemara in 1905. John Millington Synge and Jack B. Yeats were sent by the Manchester Guardian to report on the “Congested Districts”, the barren, over-populated and most poverty-stricken parts of the West of Ireland.
The film won the European Community Award and was nominated for the Fiction Award at the Cork Film Festival.
TO THE WESTERN WORLD is a dramatised documentary which reconstructs a journey made by two Irishmen across Connemara in 1905. John Millington Synge and Jack B. Yeats were sent by the Manchester Guardian to report on the “Congested Districts”, the barren, over-populated and most poverty-stricken parts of the West of Ireland.
The film won the European Community Award and was nominated for the Fiction Award at the Cork Film Festival.
- Narrated by John Huston
- Written and Directed by Margy Kinmonth
- Produced by Brian Harding
- Edited by John Fanner
- Starring Niall Toibin, Patrick Laffan, Tom Hickey and Brendan Cauldwell
- Film run time: 32 mins
- Format: PAL
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