A new Tipperary film “The Minnitts of Anabeg,” will receive its very first screening at the Nenagh Arts Centre, North Tipperary, this coming Wednesday night, December 18th, beginning at 7.30pm sharp.
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This excellent film production was made on a micro budget and filmed around Nenagh and Thurles, here in Co Tipperary, using localised and very talented actors from amateur drama groups representing Nenagh Players and our own much enjoyed award winning Thurles Drama Group.
The film “The Minnitts of Anabeg,” tells the true factual story of the Minnitt family and the generations who lived in Anabeg house near Nenagh, from the 1600’s to the early 1900’s. The Film focuses in particular on one Joshua Minnitt, latter a prominent landowner living around the period of the Great Famine era (1845 -1849) and his assistance in helping the local impoverished community through that tragic, black period in our Irish history.
While managing to greatly assist and save a community, Joshua Minnitt failed however to save his own family. His only son against his wishes married a local Catholic girl resulting in the former being disinherited.
The film’s factual storyline however is not just a tale dominated by religious bigotry, but also an account of a family torn apart by politics and power.
The soundtrack for this low budget film was written by Roscrea music composer Thersa Larkin, while the original Anabeg House building was used as the film’s main location. Other scenes were filmed at locations in Thurles, at St Mary’s Famine Museum and at Nenagh Convent, latter which still has a laundry room from the days of the old workhouse regime.
Tickets: Tickets for this very first screening of a Tipperary based production cost just €8.00 and will give the audience a chance to meet many of the talented actors, musicians, technical people and producers involved, many who will be in attendance.
This is a must see event for lovers of real romance, drama, history and in particular Tipperary history. So if you are tired of looking at the same old Dublin produced rubbish, currently sold and eluded to as ‘celebrity entertainment,’ by our various Irish TV channels presently, get out there and see real Tipperary talent perform on screen.
DVD: A limited edition DVD will also be available to purchase on the night.
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