In "The Causeway of the Giants," now available to stream on the Irish Film Institute's IFI Archive Player, a couple explores "one of the wonders of the world" in 1953.
The story of Ireland's patron saint Patrick and his adopted homeland in picturesque Co Down is explored in "St. Patrick's Country," a short film from the Irish Film Institute.
Watch The Irish Film Institute preserved British Pathe footage of Scottish woman Julia Clarke laughing after having been jailed in 1937 Ireland as part of Eamon de Valera's "Vice Act" for kissing her boyfriend in public.
In the nearly 12-minute newsreel "Irish Co-Operative Gathers Peat," captured by British Pathe in the 1920s and preserved by the Irish Film Institute, an Irish community of farmers come together to dig, stack, and gather turf 100 years ago.
Newsreel from the Irish Film Institute (IFI) shows enthusiastic celebrations on the streets of Dublin as legislation creating the Irish Republic is passed on April 18, 1949. "Irish Republic Proclaimed" is now available to stream for free on the Irish Film Institute's IFI Archive Player.