Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)

Directors

Peter Lennon

Cast

Seán Ó Faoláin

The story

A brief sketch of Irish history since the Easter Rising of 1916 is drawn, in which the hopes of the revolutionary founders of the Irish Free State for a republican society are dashed. In the film, the writer Seán Ó Faoláin argues that, after the Irish revolutionary period: The film covers the continuing dominance of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy with scenes of hunting and equestrian events. The country's lack of independence from American foreign policy is touched on; Conor Cruise O'Brien is critical of Ireland's following of American policy in the United Nations General Assembly since 1957, and argues that Ireland should follow Sweden's…

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