WATCH: A look at Ennis, Co Clare more than 70 years ago
WATCH: A look at Ennis, Co Clare more than 70 years ago The Irish Film Institute presents this study of the sleepy village of Ennis, Co Clare, in the 1940s and how Shannon Airport affected daily life in the locality. In Partnership With: Facebook Addthis The 1949 short-film “Ennis,” from British Pathé, is featured on the Irish Film Institute’s IFIPlayer. While Pathé’s lens focuses on primitive thatched cottages in this short film, the narrator describes how Ennis "clings to the old ways of life." A young boy fills a bucket from a street pump, and the voiceover tells how "water for a...