To The Western World
Film & Panel Discussion

to the western world

Docudrama by BAFTA winning director Margy Kinmonth.

The film documents the tour made by Ireland’s great playwright John Millington Synge and major artist Jack B. Yeats in Counties Galway and Mayo in 1905.

American premiere was originally hosted by the New York Irish Center. Followed by a panel discussion as a feature of the 2021 Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival. 

The film, narrated by legendary film director John Huston, was shot entirely on location with local inhabitant of Connemara and a notable cast of actors from the Abbey and Druid Theatres, including Tom Hickey, Pat Laffan, Brendan Cauldwell and Niall Toibin. 

Talk back panel is now available to enjoy HERE, hosted by Turlough McConnell with filmmaker Margy Kinmonth and guests Professor Christine Kinealy, founder of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute and Cormac O’Malley, Irish art collector, author and historian, whose father, the Irish rebel leader Ernie O’Malley, was a close friend of Jack Yeats and who has several of the Yeats’ sketchbooks.    

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