The Hard Border

Details

Location

Ballyconnell, Belfast, Crossmaglen, Derrylinn, Donegal, Killeen, Larne, London, Newry, Portadown

Year

2023

Date

Length

04min 14sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

black and white, colour

Source

Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive

Courtesy

Colm Laverty, Laura O'Connor, Seamus O'Rourke

Rights Holder

Byword Productions, COI, Evergreen Media, ITV, Mrs Lindy Reid, Northern Ireland Screen, Northern Ireland Tourist Board, Police Authority for Northern Ireland, Seamus O'Rourke, Translink

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

The Hard Border is a poem written and performed by Seamus O'Rourke during Brexit. 

Seamus O’Rourke is an award-winning writer, director and actor from County Leitrim. Colm Laverty is a talented filmmaker who has worked with the Digital Film Archive on projects including ‘The Bannfoot Ferry’ (2024),‘Translating Linen’ (2021) and music videos for Malojian and Documenta. 

Notes

This archive rendition of the poem was created for an exhibition of 'The Druthaib's Ball' by Array Collective in Galway Arts Centre in 2022. 

Credits

The Hard Border is written and performed by Seamus O'Rourke. 

Edited by Colm Laverty

Archive Producer Sinéad Bhreathnach Cashell 

Special thanks to Laura O'Connor and Pauline Russell for their support in making this possible.   

 

 

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