A Rocky Road to Independence Ireland in the 1960s was a nation frozen in time. While Beatlemania, Vietnam, hippies and free love gripped the west, we had Father Michael Cleary (the singing priest) and the Irish Censorship Board. Our church-controlled educational system produced young students who fretted about original sin years before they were capable of conceiving one. Our government acted as if church and state were indistinguishable. We were shut-in’s, defiantly turning our backs against the 20th century and the modern tide. In Rocky Road to Dublin, Peter Lennon’s recently restored and re-released 1968 documentary about the state of Ireland in that transformative decade, Lennon captures a nation teetering on the cusp of enormous social change. It makes for startling viewing, and the Irish Film Institute is to be commended for placing this groundbreaking film before the public again. It’s a true saying -- prophets are never recognized in their own land.
- 6/30/2010
- IrishCentral
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