GRAMNet Film Series A Portrait of James Connolly

A Portrait of James Connelly

Documentary: Ireland (1966)
Writer: Owen Dudley Edwards
Producer: Aindrias Ó Gallchóbhair
Running time: 50 mins
English

A rare opportunity to see the first screening in Glasgow of the documentary portrait of Irish Easter Rising, Scottish born leader James Connolly in the award-winning RTÉ series ‘On Behalf of the Provisional Government’. The digitally-remastered film features the reminiscences of close colleagues and family of James Connolly, including his Edinburgh-born daughter, Nora, and his niece, Mary, daughter of his Edinburgh-based fellow socialist activist, elder brother, John.

This screening is sponsored by 1916 Rising Centenary Committee Scotland