Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema

Gaelic games have been a recurring motif in film, representing ‘perceived’ aspects of Irish identity that are neither straightforward nor unproblematic. International productions have used the sport to reinforce regressive Irish stereotypes such as a propensity for violence. For indigenous producers, on the other hand, the games symbolize Irish cultural practices and have been utilised to promote and affirm the nation with the rise of domestic filmmaking in the wake of the Second World War.

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