Irish Destiny

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Irish Destiny
Irish Destiny poster.jpg
Poster
Directed by George Dewhurst
Written by Isaac Eppel
StarringPaddy Dunne Cullinan
Frances Macnamarra
Production
company
Eppels Films Ltd.
Release date
  • 24 March 1926 (24 March 1926)
Running time
73 minutes (5 reels)
Country Irish Free State
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Irish Destiny is a 1926 film made in the Irish Free State, directed by George Dewhurst and written by Isaac Eppel to mark the tenth anniversary of the Easter Rising. A cut version was released in Britain, entitled An Irish Mother. [1] [2]

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The film was considered lost for many years until in 1991 a single surviving nitrate print was located by the Irish Film Institute in the United States' Library of Congress. The institute's archive had the film transferred to safety stock and restored. The institute then commissioned Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin to write a new score for the film. [3] [4]

Irish Destiny is the first fiction film that deals with the Irish War of Independence, and the first and only film written and produced by Isaac (Jack) Eppel, a Jewish Dublin GP and pharmacist who also enjoyed a career as theater impresario and cinema owner. [5] [6]

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References

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