Remembering Sam Thompson

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Remembering Sam Thompson

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Location

Belfast City Cemetery

Year

1966

Date

Production 15/02/1966

Length

41sec

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

At Belfast City Cemetery, the Sam Thompson Memorial Committee have gathered to commemorate the playwright on the first anniversary of his death. Sam Thompson’s wife and young son are present as Dr James Ryan and John McBride lay flowers on his grave. Thompson passed away at the young age of 49. 

Notes

Sam Thompson (21 May 1916 – 15 February 1965) was an 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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