Workshop with Donal Wilde and Pádraig Kennelly

Workshop with Donal Wilde and Pádraig Kennelly

Cork Film Festival, Workshop, Donal Wilde, Pádraig Kennelly, Joan Kennelly

This is a black and white photo of a workshop that appears to be demonstrating the intricacies of film editing to a small group of participants. The back of the photograph identifies two of the participants as Donal Wilde, sitting at the table, and the photographer Padraig Kennelly. There is little information on Donal Wilde but we know he was a cameraman who possibly worked on the film Patriots for a Man: Blue Shirts and their Times (RTÉ, Nick Coffey, 2000), a film on the history of Irish far-right organisations in the 1930s.

A bearded Pádraig Kennelly, wearing a light-coloured jacket and dark trousers, is standing on the right, hands resting on the table and leaning down while he follows the demonstration on the table before him. Kennelly was an Irish journalist, cameraman and photographer, who co-founded and edited Kerry’s Eye newspaper. He is best known for pursuing photojournalism with his wife, the photojournalist Joan Kennelly, who died in 2007. The Kennelly's were a formidable team, achieving international recognition with their work documenting the 1969 visit of Charles de Gaulle to Ireland. De Gaulle had just resigned as President of France and his exile to Ireland caused consternation and avid interest back home so, armed with local knowledge and a long-lens camera, the Kennelly’s tracked the de Gaulle entourage around Kerry taking a number of pictures one of which made the cover of Paris Match. Frank McNally notes in his article on 'Capturing a General' that, for many years after. the Kennelly’s would raise a toast to the de Gaulles’ visit: “Up Kerry and vive la France!” (Irish Times, 29.05.2013).

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, TF Sheppard

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1960

TF Sheppard

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1960
Cork, Ireland

Photo

252 x 206mm