![]() Presented by Irish Film Enterprises Dublin." Scenes of the pageant and the selection of winning tickets in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes Draw. P.c.: Film Enterprises (Ireland), p/d: J. This film is held at the Irish Film Archive as part of the Spencer Freeman Collection. The winning horse is patted by some of the crowd surrounding him. View of clock and sign of the Weigh Room. Panning shot of winning horse being led through crowds. The winner and runner-up are led off the course to paddocks. Knockadreen makes his way through the crowd. The favourite Jack Chaucer passes and leads to the finish line which is crowded with spectators. At the 21st fence Sterling Duke takes the lead. The jockey leads him out of the ditch and gets back on. Another slips into the ditch in front of the jump. Further shots of the race with horses clearing jumps. He gets up and walks off with an ambulance attendant. The horses pass the grandstand after covering two miles. Shots of the race in progress-horses jumping fences at various parts of the course. Shots of horses being led to the starting line for the race. ![]() Among those attending are the President Douglas Hyde and his daughter. Shots of racegoers and part of the crowd. Panning shots of racecourse showing gathering crowds. Shots of people walking to racecourse, along with some motorists. Large group of cameramen at Leopardstown. McNally and Owen Anthony.Joseph MacGrath leaning on hedge. Featherstonhaugh, Dan Moore, Eric Foley, Mr. Among the people featured are Miss Kearns, Mr. Among them are Rockquita, Knockadreen, Young Mischief, Sterling Duke, Royal Danieli and Lasseen. Shots of horses on practice runs along Portmarnock strand. Telegraph poles being erected along roads leading to Leopardstown. Shots of various jumps on the course and work being carried out on them. Panning shot of grandstands at Leopardstown racecourse. 03 0225 318896.īilingual nameboard of Foxrock railway station. Irish Irish International Film Agency, 112 Marlborough Street, Dublin." Brian Freeman - Macaulay Buildings, Widcumbhe Hill, Bath BA26AT, Avon, England. The Greatest Race ever run in Ireland." Inter-title: "Film Enterprises (Ireland) have granted following sole booking rights- The World (except Irish) Exclusive Films Ltd. Title:"Film Enterprises (Ireland) present the Irish Red Cross Steeplechase. This reel contains scenes of preparations for the Irish Red Cross Steeplechase at Leopardstown and of the race action itself. P.c: Film Company of Ireland, d: John MacDonagh. RTE Libraries and Archives hold a 35mm print of this film. The DAIL BONDS film was shot during an interlude in the making of WILLY REILLY AND HIS COLLEEN BAWN, a feature length drama directed by John MacDonagh, which was released the following year (see volume 1, p. The DAIL BONDS, or REPUBLICAN LOAN film was a propaganda short with key Sinn Fein leaders, including Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, (Eamon de Valera was in the USA), which was used by Collins to publicise the hugely successful fund-raising effort on behalf of the First Dáil. Endas Rathfarnham, the school which Patrick Pearse had founded in 1908 and where MacDonaghs brother, Thomas, executed after the 1916 Rising, taught. This film is also known as REPUBLICAN LOAN This film was shot by John MacDonagh at St. Michael Collins sits at a table (an intertitle states that it was the block upon which Robert Emmet was executed in 1803) and passes Republican or Dail Bonds to a number of prominent Republicans, including Arthur Griffith, the mother of Patrick Pearse, the widow of the executed leader, Eamonn Ceannt, and a person referred to as McDonagh (brother of the films director?).
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