The Irish Archive Movie Map
The Irish Film Institute has launched a fascinating interactive map exploring one of Ireland’s most distinctive cinematic time capsules: the Amharc Éireann cinema newsreels. The Archive Player Map plots 250 stories from the series across the island of Ireland, allowing users to browse the films geographically and discover how different towns, cities and landscapes appeared on cinema screens during the 1950s and early 1960s. Gael Linn was founded in 1953 with the aim of promoting Irish language and culture. One of its earliest and most innovative projects was cinema newsreels. That project became Amharc Éireann (“View of Ireland”).The first Amharc Éireann films began screening in 1956 and quickly became a regular feature in cinemas across Ireland. The IFI’s new Archive Player Map transforms this historic newsreel series into a spatial archive. Instead of browsing the films as a chronological list, the interactive map allows users to explore the stories geographically. Pins scatter...
