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Irish language documentary ‘Enigma de Blaghd’ to air on BBC Two Northern Ireland
2016-08-12 9:00:00 : Katie McNeice
The Scun Scan Productions and Imagine Media co-production will air on Sunday September 4th at 10pm.

The project was directed by Donall O’Maolfabhail and co-commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland and TG4, with support from Northern Ireland Screen's Irish Language Broadcast Fund.

Centred on the figure of Ernest Blythe, the Irish language feature documentary explores his involvement in the Irish politics as an Ulster-born Unionist who embraced Irish Language and joined the IRB. Blythe is credited as having played a part in the planning of The Rising and was also involved in the War of Independence. He is also the only man from an NI Unionist tradition to have served in Dáil Éireann.

The programme, which will broadcast with English subtitles, examines the image often portrayed of Blythe as an unreasonable, ruthless man with fascist tendencies. It questions whether that view gives a full picture of his character and work.

The documentary hears views from a wide range of commentators who assess his role as Minister for Finance at Dáil Éireann, deputy leader of Fine Gael, as well as the part he played in the fledgling new Irish State and in the survival of the Irish language.

Contributors include historians Eamon Phoenix, Maurice Manning, Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, Ruan O'Donnell and Professor John A. Murphy.

Using archive footage and interviews with Ernest Blythe, Enigma de Blaghd looks at the forthright views of the former government Minister as well as his writings both in Irish and English. It also looks at how, when the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in 1921, Blythe supported and defended it, how he urged those living in the north of Ireland to accept their fate outside the new Irish State and examines what legacy, if any, he has left.





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