‘Ryan’s Daughter’ returns to Kerry for the Dingle International Film Festival

Before Star Wars, there was Ryan’s Daughter. And, next week, for the first time, the Dingle International Film Festival opens with a digital production of the David Lean epic, which put the west Kerry peninsula on the map.

Furthermore, actress Sarah Miles, the screen wife of the school teacher played by Robert Mitchum, returns to Dingle to open the festival, on St Patrick’s Day.

“Sarah opened the very first film festival, so it is more than fitting that she returns to celebrate our 10th birthday with us,” said director and founder of the festival, Maurice Galway. “Ryan’s Daughter, set in the wake of the Easter Rising, is the perfect film to celebrate Ireland’s centenary, and who better than Sarah to be here with the film.”