Irish and Proud of It (film)

Irish and Proud of It
Directed by	Donovan Pedelty
Written by	Dorothea Donn-Byrne David Evans Donovan Pedelty
Produced by	Victor M. Greene Donovan Pedelty
Starring	Richard Hayward Dinah Sheridan Liam Gaffney
Cinematography	Germain Burger Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by	Hans Nieter
Music by	Colin Wark
Production company	Crusade Films
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	November 1936 (1936-11)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Irish and Proud of It is a 1936 comedy film directed and co-written by Donovan Pedelty and starring Richard Hayward, Dinah Sheridan and Liam Gaffney produced in the Irish Free State period. In the film, a popular London-based Irish singer announces one evening how much he would love to go home to his home village in rural Ireland. For a prank, some of his friends take him up on this offer. He is kidnapped and deposited on a wild moor. He returns to the village of his youth, slightly disorientated, and battles an American gangster who has taken control of the settlement.

It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie for release by the British subsidiary of Paramount Pictures.

Cast

• Richard Hayward as Donogh O'Connor
• Dinah Sheridan as Moira Flaherty
• Gwenllian Gill as Mary Johnson
• George Pembroke as Mike Finnegan
• Liam Gaffney as Sean Casey
• Herbert Thorpe as Benito Colombo
• Jimmy Mageean as Old Flaherty

Bibliography

• Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• Irish and Proud of It at IMDb