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Peter Lennon was an Irish journalist and film director best known for his documentary Rocky Road to Dublin (1968), which critically examined Irish society in the 1960s. He worked as a journalist for The Guardian and other publications, often focusing on social and political issues. Lennon's work provided a candid look at Ireland's cultural and political landscape during a time of significant chan...
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This documentary reunites director Peter Lennon and cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who recount the making of their then controversial but now classic documentary on Ireland in the Sixties. Rocky Road to Dublin was screened for only a few weeks at a single Dublin theatre.
Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon examines the contemporary (1967) state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, “What do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?” It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making.
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