[Cro Dreoilin] A film

[Kelley Forbes]

Thanks for posting!

Where the film really shined was in the interviews about stories people 
had experienced and heard. It was very good at showing some of the 
remainder of the Fairy Faith and folk belief, but the historical and 
mythological info was pretty inaccurate. Which makes sense: they seem to 
be asking a bunch of everyday folk about history; I wouldn't expect 
them  to have read the Lebor Gabála Érenn or to be able to analyze the 
difference between who the Tuatha de Dannan and the Celts and the 
Fairies were. Also, Pagan belief about who these peoples were differed 
from church belief about it.

Random notes:
--  The evil white cat was cute.
--  Dude in the overalls with the yellow jumper: Feed your kitten!
--  Appearing in this movie was Eddie Lenihan, who wrote "/Meeting the 
Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland", /a book we will 
probably get around to for our Reading Group sooner or later.


-- Kelley.

JM wrote:
> Here is a documentry film on the Tuatha DeDannan you might enjoy.
>
> http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/glenafooka
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