1916 The Irish Rebellion Continues its Extraordinary Travels Around the Globe
1916 The Irish Rebellion continues to have a remarkable reach.
On one day this fall, October 21st, the documentary was screened in four cities on four different continents: Asunción, Paraguay (accompanied by Bríona Nic Dhiarmada), Montreal, Prague (accompanied by
Christopher Fox), and Tokyo (sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of Japan)
. The three-part documentary was launched last spring with broadcasts in Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, as well as in other countries and on Aer Lingus.
An additional 80 screenings of the feature-length version (86 minutes) were held last spring at embassies, film festivals, theatres, and other venues in locations as diverse as Ankara, Belgrade, Hong Kong, Madrid, Moscow, Riyadh, Rome, and Sydney.
In yet another initiative,
Reframing 1916, s
elect Notre Dame faculty have travelled to museums, institutions, and universities with an Irish Studies presence to engage with their faculty, students, and the public in a scholarly response and reassessment of the seminal events of 1916. Reframing 1916 was funded by generous donors to the Institute.
Last spring, there were Reframing events in 15 different cities—including Auckland, New Zealand; Cape Town, South Africa; Cleveland, Ohio; New Delhi, India; and Tallinn, Estonia.
The Reframing tour has continued this fall with screenings and panels in Montreal, New York City, Boston, western Massachusetts, Connecticut, Paris, Notre Dame's Rome and London Global Gateways, Monaco, Dublin, Budapest, Prague, Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester. The final two Reframing events will be held in the United States this November: Berkeley (November 17) and, in partnership with the World War I Museum, the local Notre Dame Club, and several local organizations, Kansas City (November 20).