Guth Gafa Documentary Festival 2008

Pádraic Ó Conaire - An Fear
Ireland, 2007, 52 min
Director: Johnny White

Fri 16th • Cinemobile • 1:45pm

Pádraic Ó Conaire is one of Ireland's best known, yet least understood of writers. Universally known, yet rarely for more than the fact that he had a ‘little black ass’ and was fond of the drink. When we do know more it is a strange conglomeration of fact and fiction, something no doubt that Pádraic himself would be proud of.
The drunken dreamer, the merry prankster, generous to a fault, selfish in the extreme. The myth of Pádraic is one of contradictions and hyperbole. Who was the real man? The revolutionary socialist, the social commentator, the nationalist, the writer, the wandering bard and, yes, the drunk. Can we ever know the real Pádraic Ó Conaire?
Pádraic Ó Conaire - An Fear is a documentary chronicling the life and times of Pádraic Ó Conaire that combines drama, archive and interview to not only reveal the truth about one of Ireland's best loved writers, but to chronicle the birth and teething pains of the new Irish free state with which he was intimately involved.