Women's Work

[Guest Peter Laban]

I have just received a DVD called 'Women's Work' which was done as a community project around Ennistymon, Co. Clare. This is a filmed project bringing teenagers and elderly women together to talk about their lives and traditional skills and through that brings them closer together.

 

I have only seen a small portion of it two weeks ago (and that's the reason Santa delivered it today) and even for that small part it is worth having. The part in question is a conversation between a few of the transition year students from Scoil Mhuire in Ennistymon and Mary Ellen Curtin. Mary Ellen, following the success of her old friend Kitty Hayes, went back to the concertina well into her seventies. The conversation covers the concertina, the housedances and the life in Clare fifty sixty years ago, one of the girls, Miltown girl Catriona Killeen plays a few tunes with Mary Ellen.

 

Lovely stuff.

 

The rest of the DVD follows the students and teacher as they get the project under way.

 

The DVD is on sale at the Courthouse studios in Ennistymon (and probably other places locally as well). More information : echoprojectennistymon (at) gmail.com

Edited December 25, 2007 by Peter Laban

[Lawrence Reeves]

Been looking for this online. Sounds great, aside from the email address of the studio, any ideas of retailers carrying this item?

[ceemonster]

i wonder if this plays in u.s. machines....isn't there sometimes some incompatibility, as with "come west along the road"?

[Guest Peter Laban]

It's multi regional.

 

In fairness the short interview and a bit of music of Mary Ellen Curtin I had seen previous to getting the DVD was the only bit and it's not a lot. So that was a slight disappointment.