The Secret of Roan Inish

<p>This week we're traveling back to 1940s Ireland with The Secret of Roan Inish! Join us to learn more about selkie lore, the evacuation of Irish islands, currachs, the history of education in Ireland, and more!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Film Background:</p> <p>Popcorn, Dailies, and Guiness: John Sayles on the Making The Secret of Roan Inish. Cinemontage: https://cinemontage.org/popcorn-dailies-and-guinness-the-secret-of-the-making-of-roan-inish/<br /> Roger Ebert Review, Secret of Roan Inish: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-secret-of-roan-inish-1995<br /> IMDB page, Secret of Roan Inish: <a href= "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111112/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111112/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0</a></p> <p>Currachs:<br /> Claidhbh O Gibne, "Newgrange Currach," Archaeology Ireland 24, 3 (2010)<br /> Tony Curtis, "Currach," The Poetry Island Review 74 (2002)</p> <p>Evacuation of Islands:<br /> Patricia Lysaght, "Paradise Lost? Leaving the Great Blasket," Bealoideas 74 (2006)<br /> Patrick Freyne, "The Last of the Blasket Evacuees: We're Not Great Mixers on the Mainland." Irish Times, available at https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-last-of-the-blasket-evacuees-we-weren-t-great-mixers-on-the-mainland-1.1831611<br /> Timothy J White and Andrew Riley, "Irish Neutrality in World War II: A Review Essay," Irish Studies in International Affairs 19 (2008)<br /> "Evacuation Marks the End of an Era as Last Families Leave the Blaskets," 1953, Reprinted in the Independent: <a href= "https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/evacuation-marks-end-of-an-era-as-last-families-leave-the-blaskets-27370752.html"> https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/evacuation-marks-end-of-an-era-as-last-families-leave-the-blaskets-27370752.html</a></p> <p>Irish Education:</p> <p>Kenneth Milne, "hedge schools" and "national schools" in The Oxford Companion to Irish History, edited by S.J. Connolly (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 237-8, 384.<br /> Senia Paseta, Modern Ireland: A V