The Poetry of Dispossession: The Irish-American Cinema of John Martin Feeney - Part 3
The Irish nationalist John Mitchel advised the Irish in America to assimilate or face an unhappy fate. Feeney is characteristic perhaps of that unhappy fate.
The Poetry of Dispossession: The Irish-American Cinema of John Martin Feeney - Part 2
Feeney's films exalt in themes of tradition, family and community as no other American filmmaker ever has. His evocation of social cohesion in the transience of social ritual is often sublime. But is it a facade?
The Poetry of Dispossession: The Irish-American Cinema of John Martin Feeney - Part 1
Feeney established a tradition of cinematic poetry, steeped in Irish race-memory, which his ancestral homeland ought to have embraced.