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...Cineaste, Vol. XXXII, No. 2), the Irish-language organization has made available DVD the second installment of its trilogy of films on Ireland's struggle for independence. Morrison's 1960 sequel, Saoirse?, had been, like its predecessor, hitherto unavailable in any format but film, its audience limited by its lack of English subtitles. The Gael Linn DVD of Saoirse? comes with optional English subtitles, terse enough to lose much of the poetic richness of the original language, but helpful nonetheless for audiences interested in Irish history but previously impeded by lack of fluency in Gaelic. And that audience is potentially quite sizable, given the recent international success of Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley, a film which has fictional parallels to some of the real events of the Morrison films.
The film's title (pronounced seer-sha--a phonetic conundrum made more manageable by the recent media ubiquity of Atonement's Oscar-nominated teen actress, Saoirse Ronan) is Gaelic for freedom, and its interrogative suffix questions both the reality of the heavily-compromised liberty that Ireland had wrested from the British in the War of Independence, and the price paid in human carnage to maintain it in the years that followed.
Saoirse? charts Ireland's turbulent journey from the formation of the first independent government in Dublin in 1919, to the...
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