Irish Destiny (1926)
March 24, 1926Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Paddy Dunne Cullinan
Denis O'Hara
Daisy Campbell
Mrs. O'Hara, Denis' mother
Frances Macnamarra
Moira Barry, a schoolteacher and Denis' fiancée
Clifford Pembroke
Mr. O'Hara, Denis' father
George Dewhurst
Director
Kit O'Malley
Captain Kelly, commandant,Clonmore Battalion, IRA
Valentine Vousden
Priest
Brian Magowan
Gilbert Beecher, a gang leader of the poteen-makers
Tom Flood
Intelligence Officer, IRA headquarters
Cathal MacGarvey
Shanahan, a jarvey
Derek Eppel
Schoolboy
Evelyn Henchey
[later Lady Grace] Kitty Shanahan's daugher
Simon Eppel
man with cigar at Vaughan's Hotel
Joe Rosenthal
Cinematography
Isaac Eppel
Producer / Writer
Details.
Wiki.
Irish Destiny is a 1926 film made in the Irish Free State, directed by George Dewhurst and written by Isaac Eppel to mark the tenth anniversary of the Easter Rising. A cut version was released in Britain, entitled An Irish Mother.The film was considered lost for many years until in 1991 a single surviving nitrate print was located by the Irish Film Institute in the United States' Library of Congress. The institute's archive had the film transferred to safety stock and restored. The institute then commissioned Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin to write a new score for the film.Irish Destiny is the first fiction film that deals with the Irish War of Independence, and the first and only film written and produced by Isaac (Jack) Eppel, a Jewish Dublin GP and pharmacist who also enjoyed a career as theater impresario and cinema owner.