Timothy A. Smiddy to Desmond FitzGerald (Dublin)
(MP/Sp.165/21/25)

Dear Mr. Minister:

Publicity

I enclose copy of the subjects covered in a series of pictures by the Fox Film Corporation which were recently taken in Ireland. At the invitation of the Fox Film Corporation I attended a private screening of these pictures and was very favourably impressed by their elevated character. At the request of the Company I chose those which in my opinion would be most suitable for publication. They will undoubtedly produce on American audiences an impression of Ireland quite different to that which many of them have. They give such an alluring character to Irish scenery and Irish life as to tempt many people who visit Europe to pass through Ireland either on their eastward or westward bound trip.

The Managing Director of this Company is Mr. Sheehan, a nephew of the late Bishop of Waterford.

Mr. Meighan's picture, 'Irish Luck' has met with an unusually good reception in New York and in Washington. Nothing is more calculated to advertise good features of Ireland than publicity of this character.

In addition you will be also glad to learn that some books have been recently published describing Irish scenery and presenting many interesting aspects of Irish life, the most recent of which is 'Ireland Beautiful', by Wallace Nuthing, Old America Company, Framingham, Massachusetts.

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IRELAND TODAY

FOX FILM CORPORATION WELCOMES YOU to a private screening of Eight Reels of pictures just made in various parts of IRELAND. These pictures are shown to you without titles. Since it will be necessary to eliminate parts of these pictures before they go out for feature distribution, we have asked you to see them in their entirety believing that you will find interest in every scene that is projected.

The subjects covered in the various reels are, briefly, as follows:

REEL ONE

Kilkenny Castle at Kilkenny; Tramore Beach; Reginald's Tower; Port of Wexford; Sheep and cows in streets at Waterford; Church at Waterford; Woollen mills at Cork; Yarn and Thread Machines; Harbor in Cork; a Brewery; Factory in Cork; Scenes about the city; Killarney Lakes; Torc Waterfalls; Dunloe Castle at Dunloe.

REEL TWO

Dunloe Castle; Scenes in Kenmare; More scenes of Dunloe Castle; Farm scenes near Kenmare; A fair in Kenmare; Road to Glengarriff; Street scene in Cork; Cobh Harbor; Looking up the harbor towards Queenstown; The River Suir at Clonmel, Tipperary; the Rock of Cashel; the Shannon at Limerick.

REEL THREE

Senator Gogarty's Garden Party in Dublin; Mr. Harrington, Mr. Gogarty and Mrs. Harrington; Countess of Fingall, Gov. General Healy of Ireland; Lady Lavery; Closeup of Governor General Healy; President Cosgrave of the Free State and Governor General Healy; Town scenes; John McCormick; Bank of Ireland. City Hall; Police Force of the Free State; Staff: O'Carroll; MacCarthy and Gantley; General Eoin O'Duffy, Chief of Police; Scenes in Dublin; Gate to the Governor General's Home; The River Liffey; Shelton Abbey, residence of Lord Wicklow at Bray; John McCormick with friends at his home near Dublin.

REEL FOUR

Bacon Factory at Limerick; Cliff at Kilkee; Cliffs of Moher; Salmon stream at Galway River; Lynch Castle; Cladagh Village for Fishermen; Woollen Mill at Athlone; The Shannon at Athlone.

REEL FIVE

Government Building in Dublin; Residential Section; Pipe Factory showing methods of manufacture; Free State Army in battle practice; Keep Fit; The Air Force.

REEL SIX

Aeroplane shots over Dublin; Guinness's Brewery; Government building and other shots; Horses leaving the famous brewery; Scenes of the brewery; Loading boats for shipment on River Liffey; Dublin Harbor looking towards the sea; Kingstown in background.

REEL SEVEN

Scenes along the sea coast showing how the sand is piled in great heaps by the force of the winds.

REEL EIGHT

Blarney Castle; Cutting peat in the bogs; Ross Castle; Thatching straw roof; Muckross Abbey; River Shannon; Killarney Lakes; Birr Castle; Limerick Castle; Cave of Port Coon and Kerry.