The Last Funeral in the Copelands

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The Last Funeral in the Copelands

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Location

Copeland Islands, Donaghadee

Year

1965

Date

Length

03min 54sec

Audio

silent

Format

colour

Source

Courtesy

Shelagh McCaughan

Rights Holder

Shelagh McCaughan

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Description

 A film by Shelagh McCaughan.

Boats in Donaghadee prepare to take people to The Copeland Islands for the final funeral to take place there. The islands had been unoccupied for many years at this point.
A crowd watches as the coffin is carried down to the boat.
The funeral is of Aise Clegg, one of the last people to leave the islands in 1953. She died aged 87, and was buried on the island in 1965.

 The filmmaker goes out to the island, and films the graveyard, and the return to Donaghadee. 

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