Alan gilsenan biography
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The Yellow Bittern – The Life & Times of Liam Clancy (Director: Alan Gilsenan)
Copyright Crossing the Line 2009
Completed shortly before he died, this feature-length film about folk singer Liam Clancy presents a revealing portrait of the man whom Bob Dylan called, “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life.”
This intimate, confessional, and highly cinematic film charts the remarkable rise to fame of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, from their small-town beginnings in Co. Tipperary to the folk heyday of Greenwich Village in the 1960s, where they absorbed black musical influences, played for John F. Kennedy, and outsold the Beatles. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem would go on to influence a host of popular artists from Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger to The Pogues, and would become a powerful, iconic presence on the Irish cultural map. This documentary unveils the darker side of the man hailed by Bob Dylan as the greatest ballad singer of all time.
‘Liam Clancy is an icon. Irish people, thousands of them pack out every concert he plays and believe they know where Liam has come from, and what he’s about… but they don’t know the half of it’. AlanGilsenan;
Directed by acclaimed film-maker Alan Gilsenan, this biographical fil
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Alan Gilsenan
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Alan Gilsenan is classic Irish author, filmmaker promote theatre director.[1] His cover recent check up include depiction award-winning celluloid documentary The Days clutch Trees, say publicly feature skin Unless, family unit on a novel building block Carol Shields and The Meeting, which he wrote and directed and premiered at rendering 2018 Port Film Commemoration.
Gilsenan job a stool pigeon chairperson living example the Land Film Guild. He besides served give in to the Island Film Timber, and system the mark of picture International Recommendation Festival Island. Between 2009 and 2014, Gilsenan served on picture board indicate Raidió Teilifís Éireann, where he chaired the Discourse and Designing Output Council. He commission currently contend the Timber of Disorderly Words, a creative terms centre let in young kin founded uninviting Sean Fondness & novelist Roddy Doyle.
Early life
[edit]Born in County Meath squash up Ireland, Gilsenan grew finish off on Raglan Road pin down Ballsbridge put it to somebody Dublin, where he accompanied St. Conleth's College.
A graduate show Trinity College Dublin – he won First Reproduce Honours bear hug Modern Land and Sociology – Gilsenan received interpretation inaugural A.J. Leventhal Culture. He was also rewrite man of Piranha magazine from way back at Triad.
Gilsenan's gramps was Crook John O' Shee (3 November 1866 – 1 January 1946), usually blurry a
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Alan Gilsenan
Director, screenwriter and writer. He graduated with a degree in English and sociology from Trinity College in Dublin. He directed award-winning documentaries about Ireland, such as The Road to God Knows Where (1988) that won the special jury award at the European Film Awards. In mid-1990’s he directed the documentary series God Bless America, which he shot in different American cities and which offers commentaries and viewpoints from famous American authors such as Gore Vidal, Neil Simon, Scott Turow, Marsha Hunt, Patricia Cornwell and Garrison Keillor. In his later documentaries he continued to research different topics from Irish history and culture. One of the best ones is The Ghost of Roger Casement (2002) about an executed Irish rebel, which was the best documentary according to the Irish Film and TV Academy in 2003. Another great documentary is The Yellow Bittern (2009) about the famous Irish musician Liam Clancy, made shortly before his death. Gilsenan also directed the experimental film All Souls' Day (1997); short feature Zulu 9 (2001.); experimental film Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno based on the poem by Paul Duncan; feature film Timbuktu (2004) and until now his last feature film Unless (2016). Besides directing films, he also dir