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The Irish Connection
Television (Full Length) – 1999
This high-rating 1999 documentary follows Gary McCormick to Ireland to investigate "those strands which tie" Kiwis to the Emerald Isle, from Dublin to the north, where his forebears originated in the 1870s. He meets locals, (musicians, tinkers, playwrights, scuba divers) and Kiwi expats, and talks The Troubles, Celtic Tigers, and why Irish emigrated to Aotearoa. Irish Connection was another collaboration between McCormick and director Bruce Morrison (Heartland, Raglan by the Sea). Companion title The London Connection saw McCormick examining Kiwi links to London.
I don't much like the Guinness away from home, I prefer the Guinness in Ireland.– Matt Molloy of band The Chieftains
Key Cast & Crew
Produced by
Morrison Grieve
Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air
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- a and p show
- a&p show
- ardoyne
- belfast
- bombing
- boxer
- bruce batten
- bruce wood
- chieftains
- connemara
- dublin
- dunedin
- flute
- folk music
- francie barrett
- francis barrett
- gaelic
- galway
- guinness
- ira
- ireland
- irish
- irish dancing
- irish music
- irish republican army
- james joyce
- ken maginnis
- kenneth maginnis
- literature
- matt molloy
- new zealand on air
- northern ireland
- nz on air
- omagh
- peter sheridan
- phil werahiko
- pint
- poorhouse
- prince andrew
- riverdance
- scuba
- settler
- sheep
- steve simmons
- temple bar
- terrorism
- terrorist
- the chieftains
- the troubles
- tim stopford
- tinker
- tinkers
- travellers
- troubles
- westport
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