Clash-of-cultures comedy Educating Rita explores darker themes too

EDUCATING RITA has a special place in the hearts of Irish audiences, cinema audiences at any rate.

Though set in Liverpool, Lewis Gilbert’s 1983 film used Dublin as a backdrop, with Michael Caine and Julie Walters gadding about a time-capsule Dublin.

The facade of Trinity College may look the same, but the past, aka Ringsend pre-Google, truly is another country.