Drogheda Independent

Old Louth film show at the Droichead on May 1

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LOOK at Louth is presented in associatio­n with the Irish Film Archive and provides a glimpse of life in the wee county through the earliest film images available in the archive.

This Silver Screen event is ideally suited to local historians, nostalgist­s and archive film enthusiast­s. It includes the earliest flickering images of Drogheda taken from a moving train by the frères Lumières in 1897 and the Bridge of the Ford, a documentar­y about Drogheda commission­ed by the Medical Missionari­es of Mary in 1948.

The film is on May 1 in the Droichead Arts Centre. €3 / Free for 55+

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