Course instructor Mary Ann Eaton will introduce each film and establish its context in Irish history and culture. Discussion follows. The series continues with a screening of “The Secret Scripture,” a 2016 film based on the novel by Sebastian Barry, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Theo James, Rooney Mara, Jack Reynor and Eric Bana.

Rose McNulty, (Vanessa Redgrave) a once vibrant and lively beauty, has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in Ireland. When new chief psychiatrist Dr. Grene arrives, he takes a keen interest in Rose. He finds a hidden memoir, written over the course of decades by Rose, that unravels the mystery of her wartime love, incarceration, and the tale of her passionate, yet tortured, life.

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