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MAIREAD FARRELL: AN UNFINISHED CONVERSATION
Somerville Theatre
Somerville, MA
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MAIREAD FARRELL: AN UNFINISHED CONVERSATION
2014/Ireland (52 min)
Director: Martina Durac

Mairéad Farrell was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988 along with two other unarmed members of the IRA in one of the most controversial incidents arising from the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The killing of the three provoked an international outcry and eventual enquiry. Due to her youth, her gender and her stature within the IRA, Mairéad Farrell was, unsurprisingly, quickly subsumed into the pantheon of Irish republican martyrs. But behind the mythologising and demonisation of the time, there was also a real person, a flesh and blood young woman who was prepared to kill and die for her beliefs

Those violent bloody events on the Rock of Gibraltar twenty years ago are now history. This documentary is a conscious act of memory as Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, who was writing a book on Mairéad Farrell just before she was killed, revisits her memories in a personal attempt to contextualise and make sense of the life and death of Mairéad Farrell.

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Somerville Theatre (View)
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
United States

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