Craigmore Street, Home of Sam Thompson

Craigmore Street, Home of Sam Thompson

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Location

Belfast

Year

1965

Date

Production 15/02/1965

Length

40sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Images of Craigmore Street on Donegall Pass in Belfast, the home of Sam Thompson, playwright. These images were taken after Thompson’s sudden death in February 1965. 

Notes

Sam Thompson (21 May 1916 – 15 February 1965) was an Northern Irish playwright best known for his controversial plays Over the Bridge, which exposes sectarianism, and Cemented with Love, which focuses on political corruption. His works fall into the social realist genre but are distinct in their dramatisation of Northern Irish issues; they were ground-breaking in documenting sectarian violence before the eruption of the Troubles. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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