Duke's sons guest of honour at John Ford Ireland Symposium

JOHN Wayne’s sons, Patrick and Ethan, will be chief honorees at the second John Ford Ireland Symposium in Dublin this weekend.

Celebrating the great American filmmaker, the festival strengthens ties between Ford and his ancestral home.

Classic Ford films (among them She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, and How Green Was My Valley) will be shown, while other guests will include iconic French filmmaker, Bertrand Tavernier, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Glenn Frankel, who has written an acclaimed new book on Ford’s masterpiece, The Searchers.