Film Review: That They May Face The Rising Sun is delicate but unsentimental

"The landscape is quintessentially Irish with its reed-choked fields and drystone walls, but religion is every bit important a backdrop here as Catholic Ireland begins to slough off the authoritarian Church..."
Film Review: That They May Face The Rising Sun is delicate but unsentimental

Barry Ward and Anna Bederke in That They May Face The Rising Sun

Fri, 26 Apr, 2024 - 17:36
Declan Burke

  • That They May Face the Rising Sun 
  • ★★★★☆
  • Cinema release

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<p>A female piper at a feis in the Mardyke, Cork, in 1926. Unfortunately, Church-inspired legislation in the era would tighten the State's grip on culture and women's rights. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive</p>

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