Killing Of Pig (1978), a short film by John Lynch

Kerry Writers' Museum moves to Kissane's farmyard in Cloontubbrid for a screening of the digitally restored version of John Lynch's 1978 short film of the butchering of a pig, an important event in the economy of every rural family and a masterclass in social realism filmmaking.

Lynch cites travelling roadshows as triggering his interest in film projection and opening a route into cinema. We recreate that journey, guided by Lynch. Mary and Mike Kissane will host the screening in the same yard that Lynch filmed the butchering of the pig in 1978.

Dick Carmody will put the film in context with a reading from his book In The Shadow of the School, Memories of Growing up in Rural North Kerry in the 1950s. He will describe how the butchering of a pig exemplified a meitheal, the social networking or mutualism that sustained rural communities.

This event is weather dependent and this film contains graphic details of the butchering of a pig.

A bus transfer will operate between Kerry Writers' Museum to Kissane's farmyard .

Places limited. Booking essential.

[Photo: John Lynch holding the edited footage of the film he shot in Kissane's farmyard in 1978 (© Kerry Writers' Museum).]

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We celebrate the art of cinema with the screening of a short film of the butchering of a pig in Kissane's farmyard in 1978.

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Kerry Writers' Museum acknowledges the support of the Heritage Council, the Listowel Duagh Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and the department of Media Studies, Maynooth University.