Bolex Boys capture lost practices of rural Kerry life for the screen on 16mm film

As Scannáin Dúchais, John Lynch and Michael Mulcahy have spent 50 years documenting life in North Kerry and creating a truly fascinating glimpse at the traditions and skills now gone

(Left to right) filmmakers John Lynch and Michael Mulcahy. Picture: Noel Sweeney

It was 1978, and filmmaker John Lynch knew that he only had one shot at getting what he had come to Kissane’s farm to film.

A gaggle of wide-eyed children stood in the gateway, and a nodding patch of crimson primroses were an ominous harbinger of the blood that would soon flow onto the concrete farmyard.