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Beamish brewery documentary now online

  • 11-02-2011 5:15pm
    #1
    Mike Hannon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    It's been over a year since I completed My Beamish Boy, a documentary about the closure of the brewery that was broadcast on RTE.

    If anyone would like to watch it you can do so here:

    http://vimeo.com/10746716mikehannon/beamish



    The much-loved two hundred year old brewery in Cork, Ireland, shut its gates forever in March 2009. As they reminisce, the ex-workers must come to terms with their grief at its closure. Suffused with bittersweet memories and wry affection, these are the stories of the famous Beamish and Crawford Brewery. All things must end, but the human spirit persists.

    The film received the Made in Cork award for Best Short Film at the Corona Cork Film Festival 2009, and was broadcast on Irish national TV in June 2010.

    mikehannonmedia.com

    Featuring
    Jack Callanan / Johnny McCarthy / Pat Bourke / David Creedon / Liam Huggins / Dick Duff / Kevin O' Donovan / Larry O' Neill / Rhona O' Leary / Ann Murray / Jim Cox / Kevin White

    Music composed by Irene Buckley

    My Lovely Smiling Beamish Boy
    Written by John Spillane
    Performed by John Spillane, Cormac McCarthy, Hugh McCarthy, Johnny McCarthy,
    Produced by Johnny McCarthy
    Courtesy of EMI Ireland Ltd
    Copyright IMRO/MCPS John Spillane 2009

    “The Last Cooper” photographs courtesy of David Creedon

    Special thanks to Christy O' Keeffe / An Spailpin Fanac / Ed Hinchy / John Sheehan Photography / Murray Ó Laoire Architects / Cork Film Centre

    Supported by Cork City Council

    Produced by Pat Comerford

    Directed and edited by Mike Hannon


Comments

  • #2
    Clare Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    Thanks Mike. I saw it at the time on RTE and really enjoyed it. Well done, it was a wonderful documentary.


  • #3
    crispsandwiches
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭crispsandwiches


    Hi Mike

    The link doesn't seem to be working. Would you be able to post the video up again.

    Thanks


  • #4
    Mike Hannon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Mike Hannon


    Sorry about that, try this link:

    http://vimeo.com/10746716


  • #5
    dublincelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭dublincelt


    Really lovely tribute to the unfortunate closing of the Beamish Brewery. All in the name of "progress". Sad to see such a Cork institution close its doors for the last time.


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