THE PECULIAR SENSATION OF BEING PAT INGOLDSBY

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Director: Seamus Murphy

Stars: Pat Ingoldsby, Imelda May, Brush Shiels

Duration: 97 mins

Language: English

Genre: Documentary

Rating: PG

Original Release: 25 September 2022 (Ireland)

 

 

 

Seamus Murphy’s curious camera roams the deep terrain of cult Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby’s unique world. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral relationship with his beloved Dublin, fellow Dubliners and anything that catches his interest. He joyfully slices through artifice and pomposity with the steel of Jonathan Swift and the imagination of Flann O’Brien. Personal challenges, a sensitive humanity and a lifetime of being a maverick have taught him to reach beyond reality and avenge the banal with absurd magic. It heals him as it can us.

 

“There is something healing about watching Ingoldsby, a man who is both outside of and ahead of his time, battling against the tide of 1960s (and onwards) Irish conformity.” – Tara Brady, The Irish Times

 

“The film uses Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes to paint a complex portrait of his beloved Dublin, and how both he and Ireland have transformed over the years” – Roe McDermott, Hot Press