BBC Four Storyville, 2012 2013, The Other Irish Travellers
Storyville: documentary which takes a personal look at the history of Ireland s vanished AngloIrish classes through the quirky family of filmmaker Fiona Murphy. The director follows her father and his four siblings back to the estate in County Mayo where they grew up in the newlyindependent Ireland of the 1930s, to trace lives rich in contradiction. While the siblings wrestled with their AngloIrish identity, their father carved out a successful career as a diplomat at the height of the British Empire. Tracking the family s fortunes from Cromwell s times, through firsthand accounts of the Civil War and mass exodus of the AngloIrish under Eamon de Valera, the film explores how this individualistic family tried to hold on, despite the odds.
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