Colm O'Regan: The UCC video library was like Tanora on tap for a young film buff

"If you were a pretentious country teenager in a house without a VCR, there was nowhere else to watch this stuff. Watching quare/slow films was one of the reasons for going to college."

Colm O'Regan: "If you were a pretentious country teenager in a house without a VCR, there was nowhere else to watch these stuff. Watching quare/slow films was one of the reasons for going to college."

It was like if Tanora came out of a tap. This was a library where you could go to watch any odd or ‘fordin’ film you wanted: the audiovisual library on the top floor of the library in UCC.

I heard about it from my older brother. It sounded magical — before YouTube or streaming existed — to watch films recommended on ‘lists of films to watch before you die’... before you died.