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Omnibus #30

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Total length: 30:14

Tony Tracy, visitng scholar from the National University of Ireland and the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, discusses the portrayal of Irish-Americans in film. He reveals the unique position of the Irish in the history of cinema, from silent movies like Happy Hooligan through Martin Scorsese's The Departed.

"Stereotypes take on a life of their own and they become related, not so much to reality, as to each other."
Tony Tracy

Shownotes with related links:

(Music Courtesy of the Podshow Podsafe Music Network)

0:05 Introduction
Chris Kretz, Instructor/Reference Librarian
0:48 Opening New Space in the Library
Joyce Gotsch, Assistant Professor
3:33 Irish-Americans in Film
Interview with Tony Tracy.
- The Huston School of Film and Digital Media
- Happy Hooligan comic strips from Barnacle Press
Films discussed (filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database):
- Abie’s Irish Rose (1928)
- Amarilly of Clothesline Alley (1918)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
- Backdraft (1991)
- The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
- The Cohens and Kellys (1926)
- The Crying Game (1992)
- The Departed (2006)
- The Field (1990)
- The Fighting 69th (1940)
- Happy Hooligan (1900)
- Ireland, a Nation (1914)
- Irene (1926)
- Iron Horse (1924)
- A Lad from Old Ireland (1910)
- My Left Foot (1989)
- Once (2006)
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- Riley the Cop (1928)
- Rogue Cop (1954)
- The Sullivans (1944)
- Traffic in Souls (1913)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Song: "A Dusty Road to Texas" by After Son

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