In The Name Of Peace: John Hume In America
A documentary that blends historical narrative with analysis and strong contemporary relevance, In The Name Of Peace: John Hume In America is one of the highlights of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. Using a mixture of interviews and archive footage, it examines Hume’s efforts to build alliances in the Us that would help to transform the situation in Northern Ireland and bring an end to the Troubles. Director Maurice Fitzpatrick feels that Hume’s contribution is too often overlooked or erased when the peace process is discussed, and here he has attempted to correct that. I asked him how it was that he first came to the subject.
“My involvement started with another film I wrote, called The Boys Of St Columb’s, in which John Hume is a central figure – he’s one of the boys of St...
A documentary that blends historical narrative with analysis and strong contemporary relevance, In The Name Of Peace: John Hume In America is one of the highlights of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. Using a mixture of interviews and archive footage, it examines Hume’s efforts to build alliances in the Us that would help to transform the situation in Northern Ireland and bring an end to the Troubles. Director Maurice Fitzpatrick feels that Hume’s contribution is too often overlooked or erased when the peace process is discussed, and here he has attempted to correct that. I asked him how it was that he first came to the subject.
“My involvement started with another film I wrote, called The Boys Of St Columb’s, in which John Hume is a central figure – he’s one of the boys of St...
- 21/02/2018
- por Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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