Down the Corner

  • Joe Comerford
  • 1977
  • Ireland
  • 53 minutes
  • English
  • DR
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Ballyfermot, an underprivileged district in Dublin, 1977. A day in the life of a group of four 12-year old boys: school-life and street-life, a grandmother who recounts her memories of the struggle against the Black and Tans around 1918, a “raid” on the apple trees in the orchard, an accident which leads to hospitalization, the father of one of the boys who finds himself unemployed.

  • Production : BFI British Film Institute; Ballyfermot Community Arts Workshop
  • Editing : Bob Quinn; Joe Comerford
  • Sound : Roger Doyle
  • Photography : Adam Baker-Mill