Stella Days: The Life and Times of a Rural Irish Cinema

From: Film Ireland | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Zimmermann, Marc | Copyright information

Stella Days: The Life and Times of a Rural Irish Cinema By Michael Doorley Dubhairle: Nenagh, 2002 140 pp, 27 ill. (incl. 1 col.), 15x21cm, pb: euro5

STELLA in Borrisokane (Co. Tipperary, ROI)

In this memoir of cinema-going days in 1950s and '60s rural Ireland, Doorley augments his reminiscences with a dash of fictional, composite characters. It offers a charming glimpse at a decade of cinema in the early days of television and how it was embedded in ...