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New Irish Shorts: Watch A Father's Letter - After '16

We present a week-long series of shorts commemorating the Easter Rising, from Screen Ireland's After '16 funding scheme which marked the 2016 centenary. 

Watch Joe Dolan's documentary A Father's Letter below...

On the eve of his execution on May 7th 1916, Michael Mallin's two-year-old son Joseph was brought to see him in Kilmainham Gaol. That night, his father wrote a letter that would change Joseph’s life forever. In it he tells family he loves them and asks his little boy to be a priest...

Watch more short films from Screen Ireland here. 

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