Cré na Cille (film)

Cré na Cille is a 2007 Irish film directed by Robert Quinn. In the Irish language, it is an adaptation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's 1949 novel Cré na Cille.[1][2] It was released outside Ireland under the English title Graveyard Clay.[3]

Cré na Cille
DVD cover
Directed byRobert Quinn
Written byRobert Quinn
Macdara Ó Fátharta
Based onCré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Produced byMickey Walsh
Ciarán Ó Cofaigh
StarringBríd Ní Neachtain
Peadar Lamb
Máire Ní Mháille
Macdara Ó Fátharta
Joe Steve Ó Neachtain
Diarmuid Mac an Adhastair
Máire Uí Dhroighneáin
Tom Sailí Ó Flaithearta
Peadar Ó Treasaigh
Máirín Uí Neachtain
Dara Devaney
Seán Ó Coisdealbha
Mairéad Ní Chuaig
Pádraic Ó Tuairisc
Mícheál Ó Conaola
CinematographyTim Fleming
Edited byConall de Cléir
Music byJim Lockhart
Production
company
ROSG
Release date
  • 17 February 2007 (17 February 2007)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryIreland
LanguageIrish
Budget€1,200,000

Production

Cré na Cille was filmed in various locations in Connemara, County Galway in 2006 to commemorate the centenary of Ó Cadhain's birth.[4] It was filmed with HDCAM in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and with Dolby Digital sound.[5]

Plot

A graveyard in Connemara. As the members of a small community die, their spirits linger on in the grave and can speak to each other.

Release

Cré na Cille premiered in Galway in December 2006.

It screened at the 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival (shortlisted for the Jin Jue Award)[6] and at the Irish Film Festival, Boston.

Cré na Cille won an award for Outstanding Services to the Irish Language at the 2007 Aisling Awards.

It premiered on television on TG4 on St Stephen's Day 2007.[7]

Bríd Ní Neachtain's performance was highly praised by critics.[8]

Awards
Awards Category Recipients Result
Irish Film & Television Awards[9][10] Best Director Robert Quinn Nominated
Best Actress in a Lead Role Bríd Ní Neachtain Nominated
Best Original Score Jim Lockhart Nominated
Special Irish Language Award Cré na Cille Nominated

Legacy

Dr Seán Crosson of NUI Galway observed that "It was remarked to me by one of those involved in the production of Cré na Cille, for example, that if it had not been made this year, it would have been increasingly difficult for the work ever to have been successfully adapted as fluent speakers of the richly textured and complex Irish found in Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece become more difficult to find."[11]

Actress Bríd Ní Neachtain appeared on an Irish 55-cent stamp in 2008, depicted in a still from Cré na Cille.[12][13]

References
  1. "Cré na Cille on DVD". www.gaelport.com.
  2. Corff, Isabelle Le; Epinoux, Estelle (25 February 2019). Cinemas of Ireland. Cambridge Scholars Pub. ISBN 9781443802406 – via Google Books.
  3. "Cré na Cille DVD - CIC". www.cic.ie. Archived from the original on 7 October 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  4. "Major coup as deal keeps top shows on TV3". Independent.ie.
  5. "Graveyard Clay (2007)" – via www.imdb.com.
  6. "Cré na Cille shortlisted at Shanghai Film Fest". 29 May 2007 – via www.rte.ie. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "'Cré na Cille' To Premiere on TG4 - The Irish Film & Television Network". www.iftn.ie.
  8. "Judges hold court at Miller's Abbey crossing". Independent.ie.
  9. "And the winners are..." Independent.ie.
  10. "Irish emigrant film receives 14 Ifta nominations". The Irish Times.
  11. https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/bitstream/handle/10379/621/FromKing.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
  12. "Filmed in Ireland". www.anpost.ie.
  13. "New stamps mark Irish language contributions". The Irish Times.


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