Film Studies For Free would like to offer its condolences to the partner, family, and friends of renowned Irish film festival founder and Irish Times film correspondent Michael Dwyer, who very sadly died on Friday at the far too young age of 58.
Dwyer (pictured above) was a very talented, and much admired, film critic, broadcaster, and programmer, 'a true star of Irish film', as a great tribute to him in the Irish Times put it. Known very much as a keen internationalist in his film tastes and championings, Dwyer did make an incalculably important contribution to Irish national film culture, as many of the personal tributes to him since his untimely death have made very clear (see, for instance, those posted here and here). Here is a link to his last column for the Irish Times with his favourite film lists for 2009 and the last decade.
Below, in his memory, FSFF has assembled its own list of links to high quality, online, and openly accessible scholarly resources on Irish cinema.
- Tony Tracy (ed.), 'Irish Film and Television - 2005' (including Introduction Tony Tracy; Irish Film 2005: An Industry in Crisis? Roddy Flynn;Boy Eats Girl Ruth Barton; Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema Debbie Ging;Adam and Paul Barry Monahan;The Trouble with Sex Emma Grealy;Pure Mule Tony Tracy;Fair City Helena Sheehan;Mickybo and Me and The Mighty CeltPádraic Whyte; Man About Dog Díóg O’Connell;Documentary Film and TelevisionHarvey O’Brien; Pavee Lackeen Seán Crosson;Adaptations: Tara Road and Breakfast on Pluto Tony Tra), Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 1, 2006
- Tony Tracy (ed.), 'Irish Film and Television – 2006' (including Introduction Tony Tracy; Industrial In/Activity Roddy Flynn; TG 4 Eithne O'Connell; The Wind that Shakes the Barley Ruth Barton; Isolation Barry Monahan; Capital Letters Debbie Ging; Once Tony Tracy; Middletown Jane Ruffino; Six Shooter Seán Crosson; Brendan Gleeson Harvey O'Brien; The Clinic Diog O Connell; The Tiger's Tail and The Pope's Children Pat Brereton) Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 2, 2007
- Tony Tracy (ed.),'Irish Film and Television – 2007 (including Introduction Tony Tracy; From Kings to Cáca Mílis: Recent Trends in Irish Film and Television as Gaeilge Seán Crosson; Cré na Cille Gearóid Denvir The Kings’ Irish: Dialogue, Dialect and Subtitle in Kings Eithne O’Connell; Altered Images: Shrooms and Irish Cinema Roddy Flynn; Small Engine Repair Ruth Barton; Lenny Abrahamson’s Garage: A Drama of Cinematic Silence Barry Monahan; Prosperity: Social Realism in the New Millennium; Díog O’Connell; The Celtic ‘Chick-flick’: How About You and PS I Love You Debbie Ging; The Brave One Maria Pramaggiore; Experimental Conversations: Ourselves Connected? Donal Foreman; Ghosts of Empire: Mitchell and Kenyon inIrelandand Saoirse? Harvey O’Brien; At Home With the Clearys Pat Brereton; Interview with Simon Perry Tony Tracy), Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 3, 2008
- Tony Tracy (ed.), 'Irish Film and Television – 2008',(including Irish Film and Television Review 2008 Tony Tracy; In the Beginning: Ardmore Studios Celebrates 50 Barry Monahan; Kisses Ruth Barton; Hunger Seán Crosson; Staging Space: Cinema, Image, and Text in Declan Recks’ Eden Harvey O’Brien; In Bruges Joan Dean; Entering the Dark Place: Visions of Irish Horror in SeerZélie Asava; 32A Roddy Flynn; Níl aon tinteán mar do hinteán féin: Home insecurity in recent Irish Cinema Veronica Johnson; Tom Jordan Murphy: An Appreciation Michael Patrick Gillespie; The Short Film and Irish Cinema Conn Holohan; Drawing Conclusions: Irish Animation and National CinemaLiam Burke; Meltdown makeover: TV3’s The Apprentice Gavin Titley; Fairytale of Katmandu Laura Canning; Bertie: Portrait of a Politician Under Suspicion Pat Brereton; Striapacha Tri Chead Bliain Duailcis Niamh O’Reilly), Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 4, 2009
