Unique old films about area to be screened on May 1

A Look at Louth, in association with Drogheda Arts Festival 2018, is a programme of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive and features a host of stories made in and about Louth from 1897 to more recent times.

From the earliest flickering images of Drogheda taken from a moving train by the frères Lumières in 1897; Dundalk cinema advertisements from the 1930s; Bridge of the Ford, a documentary about Drogheda commissioned by the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1948; a host of short films made by Gael Linn in the 1950s and ‘60s showing news stories all around the county - ICA HQ; pirate radio ships; beauty contests, dog shows, and mystery cinema fires; and a particularly exciting All Ireland Football Final from 1957.

The day promises to be a classic and the film screens in the Droichead Arts Centre on Tuesday May 1 at 2pm. €3 | over 55’s free