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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | Irish Film and TV Drama: A Labour History
Description: Monday, 12 April 2021, 10 – 11am
A research presentation by Dr Denis Murphy (Department of Film, TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum (SCARF) in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.
Although filmmaking in Ireland dates back to the silent era, Irish film workers have not always enjoyed easy access to employment on the international productions on which the Irish film industry has always depended for its economic survival. These struggles – for the right to employment itself, and the right to influence its quality through pay and working conditions – have been shaped throughout the past six decades by film worker...