1pm April 15th, IFI IFI Ireland on Sunday presents Desmond Bell’s dramatisation of the life of Frank Ryan (1902–1944), a new Irish drama that provides a sympathetic but searching portrait of a politically complex figure. Ryan, an IRA activist in Ireland, International Brigade Volunteer in Spain, and Nazi collaborator in Berlin, entered an agreement with a Nazi regime which he believed would assist in forging a united Ireland. But the former radical and internationalist paid…
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2012 presented Desmond Bell’s ambitious dramatization of the life of the Irish republican socialist Frank Ryan.