Film Protests in Galway City, Ireland 1986
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Protests over the planned screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s controversial film ‘Hail Mary’ in Galway.
Plans for a screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Hail Mary’ were met with opposition at University College Galway.
Determined to stop the film being shown, several prayer groups from around the country came together in Galway and mounted a protest at the college entrance. They argued that ‘Hail Mary’ is “blasphemous”. The UCG Film Society was equally determined for the Irish premiere of the film to go ahead. As a result of the opposition, the UCG authorities announced that the screening would not be allowed to take place.
In a statement on the decision Joe McMahon, Secretary of the Film Society said,
We fear the possible consequences this decision could have for academic freedom and research within the university and for the cultivation of the arts in society at large.
The society endeavours to find an alternative venue for the screening to a limited audience.
English lecturer, Dr Pat Sheeran described the decision of the college authorities as,
An act of moral and intellectual cowardice
Filmmaker Bob Quinn states,
I’m quite horrified that a university should prevent the showing of a film in a place that is supposed to be the preserver of free speech.
Heated exchanges took place between those for and against the screening.
One man opposed to the screening said,
"When I heard that this film was going to be shown tonight... it really disgusted me... It is in fact blasphemous pornography"
Arguing that the Pope and the Vatican have spoken out against the film. He continues by saying,
"A society that has lost its sense of outrage... has lost its sense of morality."
Those in opposition engaged in vigils of prayer and song at the college gates.
One woman comments,
"What we are trying to do is to prevent this filth from touching our youth."
It was later announced that there would be a private showing of the film at the home of a college lecturer.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 14 January 1986. The reporter is Jim Fahy.
They're even coming from Gdansk to see the movie
FILLUM
Thanks for uploading. I was in UCG but had left two years before this event. It's amazing to look back at those times in this and your other videos. All the older people, and indeed some young people feeling that they must act as moral guardians to prevent our upcoming descent into depravity as they saw it. You couldn't argue with them that what consenting adults did privately was no one else's concern. They never saw what was actually coming, the actual depravity in the abuse of power by the Church over the vulnerable they were supposed to be taking care of, both temporally and spiritually. Some of the self-appointed moral guardians never got over that sharp shock from reality.
Yeah, I felt sorry for allot of them actually, particularly those that were older. The first slap in the face they got was the Eamonn Casey scandal. That shook allot of older folks around Galway (And beyond).
Our Mother
Like trying to talk to trump supporters.
The passion of St. Tibulus
Meanwhile the church was destroying little kids lives with widespread sick sexual abusiveness beyond words
Is it a sort of Nudie thing?
Ah sure I might wander in.
Ah lads I'm mortified for us, this was only 34years ago!!! 🙈🙈
I remember it well - I wanted to see the film that evening...
4.05 "What we are trying to do, is to prevent this filth, from touching our youth" Unless that filth touching our youth is a priest, then it's grand eh.
Or how about the odious apparatus of an abortionist
Most of those old biddies are now long dead, thank goodness.
@@lukerothwell1474They remind me of trump supporters at a trump rally.
"I've never seen the movie but I don't like it and therefore, you can't see it." Those people taking offence to a movie chose to take offence. Offence is taken, not given. Someone being offended is no excuse to censor anyone.
What gives those protestors the right to decide what other people can and can not view?
What a fascinating piece of social history! Thank you for posting this. It's definitely not the Galway or the Ireland of today, that's for sure. (Though the area around the entrance to NUIG looks pretty much the same!) Such a different time - you'd never get a legion of protesters to come out to oppose a Godard film, but then you wouldn't get more than a handful to come out and view it either.
Also, I think the irony would be that if there was a censorship battle now, the target would probably be someone opposed to abortion or gay rights, and the folks calling for censorship would probably be much younger than the ones opposing it. (Albeit, I've found that Ireland is still not as bad about 'cancel culture' as the USA or the UK.)
I think the Bishop Casey scandal in the early 90's was the death knell for that kind of religious mania in Galway.
It bored the arse of me
@@gilactico That weird family who sued NUIG are trying to revisit those days.
@@johnnyfeen1347 they are indeed but unfortunately unlike the Bishop they're not big box office 😂😂😂
I left Ireland in 1985 , a you gay teenager that just had to get away from all this . That guy at 5.05 is as camp as a row of tents , probably had a collection of bodybuilding magazines under his mattress .
AWFUL times that nan at 5.05 is a senator now I think his name is Mullens.
The Fr Ted episode was based on true events , that is wacky we have done well considering.
Correct, only 10 years prior to that episode
is it a nudey thing?
you wouldnt believe the amount of nudity in it
3:47 Yer man with the pink head-scarf looks coked off his head.
Definitely a fan of the yokes
And that’s a women 😂 😂
@@nervesinapattern7261 No shit 😆
Let's have a look lol
That's the durty Aulwan from naked camera
Instead of RC nuts, we now have PC nuts
Man, we really have evolved as a society in the last 35 years. I wonder in 35 years time will people look back on the Ireland of today and have a similar view?
they will to be sure
About the same time as this......I was 8.....going to the Town Hall Cinema to see He-Man .... Basil Mouse Detective
blasphemoous pornography.... where can i get this film? sounds pretty good
😂
priest in the background fiddling with a 5 year old
The sense of offence-- great name for a band 🤣🤣.
The times we lived in and it’s not that long ago.
‘This filth touching our youths’🤣🤣🤣🤣j
how this country got to where it is today i will never know.
A bus load of old biddy's and a few weirdo's stopped a film being shown !!
they firebombed dancehalls.
That bus must have STANK... of pish.
This is hilariously funny. It's almost a given anyway that the very people who often protest against a movie or a book have never read or seen the thing they are protesting against.
And then Fr Ted came along.
“Terrible things are going to happen”……….Tuam……….hold my beer
Just imagine, this was all people had to bother them in 1986. Different world. Very innocent times.
Virtue signalling at it’s best.
3:19
As Brendan Gleeson might have said in "The Guard" - "I don't know where _you_ get your pornography... but it's not where I get _my_ pornography!"
How many guys in that group in the closet Id hazard a guess around half
Is it dubbed or subtitled??
I am left speechless, totally speechless. I wanted to say that at least all those auld Nanny Goats are dead now. The weeds are slowly being pulled from the garden. The smell of piss and stale musty perfume on the bus back to Cork must have been horrific.
😂😂😂
absolute headbangers ...
The state of the catholic man with the glasses who pays Tax. .➕
like Spock outa star trek ha ha ha
2:16 Pete Smith wearing a tie, I don't believe it.
Censorship of the people, by the people. I wonder if there was priests telling them on Sundays to do this stuff.
Great to see we've come a long way
I'm not sure we have come so far when you consider rampant cancel culture in modern universities
Father Ted
Ffs
Sure could be worse, they could blow up a few people or stab/beheadings etc.
So I take it Debbie Does Dallas was never shown here.
A lot of sheep out there....the deluded women at 4minutes must of been talking about the priesthood..
Jerry Springer the Opera had the same issues as recently as 2006. So these Zombies still exist. John d Reilly on Spotify
5.05 that Simon harris lad sticks his nose into everything
What film was it
I agree with u all ban it .🙏🙏
Sure I might wonder in...
5:05 bent as a ram's horn.
Dubbed or subtitled?
I had a good laugh at the people praying outside.
Down with this sort of thing
Is it a kinda nudity film fr.??
This is what happens when
2:23. Father Fintan Stack obviously wants to see the film!!
Father ted down memory lane
2 year sentance with the last 24 months suspended
Extreme is its??
One of Godard's greatest works.
Cut to 2022, where the young generation act like the old catholic people. How the turns have tabled!
Just like in some parts of Poland now.
XVI th century.
Blasphemes pornography, the best type of pornography some might say...especially in Cork...
Down With This Sort Of Thing
Watched the film and it was desperately worthless art house crap. Today lady gaga thrives on getting almost banned.
Careful now
The-ay-ters.
This is a flash back to a depressing grey lreland of the 80's....just switch off the news, otherwise you'll lose your smile....
Both sides wouldn't p*ss on you if you were on fire🔥🙃
Down with that sort of thing!
4.55 ur woman gagging to see it
My heart bleeds for our Irish brothers and sisters it is appalling how they have been treated our families love goes out to all.
What's the film guys?
Jean Luc Godard's Hail Mary
French Cinema 🤣🤣
Chya