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Irish Destiny
(1926) Ireland
B&W : Feature film
Directed by George Dewhurst
Cast: Paddy Dunne Cullinan [Denis O’Hara], Frances MacNamara [Moira Barry, a schoolteacher and Denis’ fiancée], Daisy Campbell [Mrs. O’Hara, Denis’ mother], Clifford Pembroke [Mr. O’Hara, Denis’ father], Brian McGowan (Brian Magowan) [Gilbert Beecher, a gang leader of the poteen-makers], Cathal McGarvey [Shanahan, a jarvey], Evelyn Henchey [Kitty Shanahan’s daugher, later Lady Grace], Kit O’Malley [Captain Kelly, commandant of the Clonmore Battalion, IRA], Valentine Vousden [the priest], Tom Flood [the intelligence officer in IRA headquarters], Derek Eppel [a schoolboy], Simon Eppel [the man with a cigar at Vaughan’s hotel], [?] Mary Connor?, [?] Patrick Cullinane?, [?] Michael Dempsey?, [?] Peggy O’Rorke?, [?] Desmond O’Shea?, [?] Una Shiels?
Eppels Films, Limited, production; distributed by [?] Eppels Films, Limited? / Produced by Doctor Isaac J. Eppel. Scenario by Doctor Isaac J. Eppel. Cinematography by Joe Rosenthal. / Released 24 March 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was banned in the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Censors in 1926. The film was released in the USA in 1927.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (national film collection).
Current rights holder: (unknown) [Ireland]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 August 2023.
References: McIlroy-Ireland pp. 23, 158, 168; Robertson-British p. 186 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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