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Carrie Crowley and Catherine Clinch in a scene from ‘An Cailín Ciúin’.

THE last time I went to a cinema on my own was when I was 13. The arrangement was that I would go after school and my father would join me on his way home from work and find me in the cinema. The movie? Something about St Francis of Assisi. 

To be nothing but honest, the early section of it was something of a disappointment. Francis seemed a nice guy who talked to birds but only of the feathered kind. The problem was that the birds didn’t talk back. Having seen Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Brothers more than once, I was used to birds doing cute things like helping Snow White decorate her apple tart, and the Assisi birds, while they were respectful enough to the local lad, were a bit dull, by comparison.