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  Multiple 1920s-30s images (not video)

Interview, 1970

"Ireland: A Television History" (1980)

Radio interview, about 1980

"The Struggle" (2003)

"B'í Mo Mhamó í" (2012)

RTE Radio (2014)

"Cumann na mBan" (2015)

  


Sighle Humphreys - Video and audio

Video and audio of (and related to) the revolutionary Sighle Humphreys.






Multiple 1920s-30s images (not video)

Apparently the following sets of multiple images in quick succession, from the 1920s-30s, are not from actual films.

Rather, they were a commmon practice at the time of street photographers snapping multiple images of people on the street and then selling them to you.

  

Nell and Sighle, Paris, c.1927.
This is from [P106/485]. See larger and full size.
See one frame.



Sighle and Dick, Dublin.
This is [P106/1035(3)]. See larger and full size.





Interview, 1970

Interview by Cormac O'Malley and someone else.



Interview with Sighle, 1970, about the 1922 raid.
Length: 18 minutes.





  

"Ireland: A Television History" (1980)

  




Radio interview, about 1980



Interview with Sighle, "Women Today", RTE Radio, about 1980.
Definitely post-1979.
Sighle recalls her life. She recalls the 1916 Rising, and her 1923 hunger strike.
She declares her unhappiness with the way independent Ireland turned out and her desire to see a socialist, Irish-speaking, united Ireland.
Length: 28 min.





The Struggle (2003)

Sighle was portrayed by an actress in the drama-documentary The Struggle (2003), made by her grandsons Manchán and Ruán Magan.

It is a dramatisation of the Free State raid on Ailesbury Rd in the Civil War, Nov 1922.

Sighle was played by Frances Healy.




Sighle's first arrest, for painting slogans in 1922 in the Civil War, re-created by an actress in The Struggle.
See other shot and other shot.



Actress playing Sighle.



Sighle, in her dressing-gown, firing a gun in the Nov 1922 raid, as played by an actress.
See full size.



Actress playing Sighle.





"B'í Mo Mhamó í" (2012)

  


RTE Radio (2014)

Sighle featured in a show on the 100th anniversary of Cumann na mBan, "Morning Ireland", RTE Radio, 2 Apr 2014.




"Cumann na mBan" (2015)

"Cumann na mBan", TV drama-documentary, TG4, 8 Mar 2015.



Sighle under arrest in the Civil War, as portrayed by actress Aoibheann McCann in the drama-documentary.
The quote "we thrive on suppression" was actually said at her 1931-1932 trial, though.



The cast.





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