Monday, 28 March 2011
IRISH FILM GENRES PART 4: SPORTS
Again, not a lot to mention here! Our national sports (hurling/gaelic football/handball) are disgracefully ignored. The only one was Clash of the ash and best of luck finding that one on DVD. Made a brief appearance in Wind that shaked the barley too. Michael Collins of course had a gaelic football game scene. Soccer featured in the terrible Studs. But the most popular sport in Irish cinema is of course boxing. Strength and honour and The boxer were both below average. But the classic Irish-Hollywood movie Gentleman Jim showed how it should be done! That's it. Plenty of room for another hurling movie, or pitch-and-putt, or golf even, or even better, an Irish rugby movie?
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