This Easter Sunday, we're kicking off a week-long series of shorts commemorating the Easter Rising, from Screen Ireland's After '16 funding scheme which marked the 2016 centenary...
Watch Kieron J. Walsh's My Life For Ireland and Ben O'Connor's A Terrible Hullabaloo below.
After '16 was a creative response by Irish filmmakers to the events of Easter 1916: an eclectic mixture of live action, animation and documentary, telling stories from the eve of the Easter Rising, all the way to the Troubles in 1970s Northern Ireland and beyond.
My Life For Ireland
Ireland, Easter, 1916. In Dublin, Irish rebel Patrick Pearse leads a revolt to free Ireland from the grips of the British Empire. Owen, a young Irish patriot, wants to join them in their fight for freedom...
A Terrible Hullabaloo
An eighty-year-old Vinny reminisces on his time with the volunteers, which took him around the city as a fourteen-year-old boy during the Easter Rising. With Vinny's Dublin brought to life by handmade miniature sets and puppetry, the film offers a uniquely charming first-hand account of the 1916 Rising...
Watch more short films from Screen Ireland here.
