In pictures: Film collaboration at The Allingham Arts Festival

Award winners, filmmaker Emer O’ Shea and poet and playwright Winifred McNulty, presented a collaboration of visual and poetic pieces at the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon. 

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Emer screened her new short movie, Cast a Cold Eye– a tribute to the late, great Sinead O Connor, which explores the connections between one of Ireland’s most iconic and best-loved singer-songwriters and her favourite poet, W.B. Yeats.  The film highlights both artists’ ability to capture human feelings of love and loss in their songs and poetry. The movie will reconnect you with the work of both creatives and appeal to admirers of either or both of them. 

Winifred McNulty’s poetry film was made in collaboration with Emer O’ Shea and is inspired by the journey of emigrants from West Donegal to Glasgow.  This work was supported by a Donegal Artists’ Bursary.

Winifred will also launch her poetry pamphlet, The Weather on a Peninsula, with a conversation with Olive Travers and will also read some of her poems.  Winifred has published poems in numerous poetry journals and won the Yeats and Westport poetry prizes.  She was also shortlisted for this year’s Strokestown Poetry Festival.