"CLOCH"

         Lighting Camera: Joe Comerford

         Music: Roger Doyle

"The other outstanding bit of television during last week used no words at all. This was CLOCH, a most imaginative film about sculpture made by Bob Quinn of Cinegael... the film had enormous visual attraction. But what really set it off was the soundtrack, the work of Roger Doyle. He used, instead of words, sounds that ranged from wailing voices to animal noises: whispers, cries, music and the rhythmic tapping of hammers.

 

 

It was  extraordinarily impressive as if, at times, he had caught the very sound of the stone suffering under the sculptors hammer. Another  aspect of this most pleasing film was it showed very clearly how much patient, physically-exhausting, slogging work goes into sculpture in stone".    - Irish Times

€20.00 (inc. P&P)

Con Tempo goes West Music documentary on the ConTempo String Quartet and their impact as Galway's Ensemble-in-Residence, 2003-2006          (col. 50 mins) €20.00 (inc.P&P)

1996    

Story of the an emigrant mecca, the Galtymore Ballroom, London. (Gael Media, Colour, subtitled, 50 mins)

€24.50 (inc.P&P)

2000                

"Splanc Deireadh na Gaeltachta" Last Spark of the Gaeltacht History of the Civil Rights movement in Galway, with Donncha O h-Éallaithe (Gael Media, Subtitled, 50 mins)

€24.50 (inc.P&P)

1999    

Documentary:

FEATURING Donal McCann

- 'the world's greatest actor (Newsweek)' .

His last public performance.

Prod. De Facto films (Colour, 50 mins)

          €24.50 (inc.P&P)

1997                

"Graceville" The 'Connemaras' in Minnesota. The amazing story of the Bishop and the peasants. (Gael Media, Colour, 50 mins)

€24.50 (inc. P&P)

1992

From: Pobal in Deutschland Conamara emigrants in Germany. (Gael Media, 6 X ½ hour) AVAILABLE NOW : "Morris Minor" Ireland's emigrant Trapp Family

€20.00 (inc.P&P)

1987     

Pobal in LONDON

(6 x 30 mins)

In nineteen-eighties London there was a building boom which involved much demolition and site clearance.  Enormous amounts of rubbish had to be removed, legally or illegally...

"The Fly-tippers"

€20.00 (inc.P&P)

1975

Lilipup   Experimental, with artist Brian Bourke                                                                                   A 'car'toon (Colour, 25 mins)

€20.00 (inc. P&P)

1978

"Listen!"

Experimental, with composer Roger Doyle

(col. 27 mins)

€20.00 (inc.P&P)

"Last Days of the Gaeltacht

(Spirit of the Festival Award - Celtic Film Festival)

With Desmond Fennell

The Family 1979 Documentary on the 'Screamers' in Donegal. So disturbing that RTE would not show it until 1993. (Colour, 27 mins) €20.00 (inc.P&P)

1979

"CRUINNIÚ NA MBÁD"

The re-enactment of the traditional turf-carrying trade between Conamara and Kinvara. It had been thirty years since Johnny Jimmy MacDonncha's boat 'An Maighdean Mhara' (featured here) last made the journey.  

€20.00 (inc.P&P)

Miscellaneous Documentaries

The Master Musicians of Jajouka
Film Portraits of Josie McDonncha, Flann O Riain, Edward Delaney, RHA., Peadar Lamb, Pearse Hutchinson, Tony MacMahon, Na h-Ancairí.

The Isle of Man (1980)
A Jehovah in Galway (1981)
A Film Board for Ireland  (1976)
(with National Film Board of Canada)
Vet on the Rocks (1986)
An Bealach Eile (Immigrants to Conamara 1978)
Fág an Bealach (Colá¡ste na bhFiann 1973);
Oireachtas na nGael (Cill Chiarán 1973)

Numerous documentaries for RTE TV including: