Hello Tippers! The British Film Institute, BFI has many interesting old news reels and other films. Here are 2 examples regarding Ireland. 1. A simple 1915 newsreel story that reminds us history is never simple. http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-ireland-welcomes-oleary-vc-1915/ Decorated Irish Guardsman Michael O'Leary enjoys a hero's welcome in Dublin, captured in footage filmed with the rough immediacy of the present tense. Within a year, Dublin's Easter Rising would begin the historic chain of events leading to a newly independent nation - forever changing the meaning of images like these. Cork-born O'Leary was one of the most celebrated Irish war combatants, having won the Victoria Cross for singlehandedly taking two German barricades on the Western Front. As suggested here, he and his story were used for recruiting purposes in Ireland, but following independence the British war service of the likes of O'Leary quickly came to be seen as an awkward irrelevance at best. Ireland today is looking afresh at the complex place of World War I in her national story and films like this have their part to play in this fascinating process. NOT BFI. Ireland today has this going on - World War One: Exploring the Irish Experience http://www.nli.ie/en/udlist/current-exhibitions.aspx?article=abc68eeb-0e89-4699-8ddd-fb312e9d1937 http://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/articles/world-war-ireland-exploring-the-irish-experience 2. Ireland - Behind the Wire 1974, 110 mins http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-ireland-behind-the-wire-1974/ The investigative Berwick Street Film Collective were given exclusive access to Belfast's Catholic community. The testimonies and footage of life 'behind the wire' that they captured amounts to a grim but arresting picture of Northern Ireland at the height of The Troubles. One of the Collective's founding members, Marc Karlin, later revealed that the Special Branch seized some of their original footage and the Ministry of Defence pressurised the film technicians' union into erasing some of the frames. Worth spending some time poking around its web site, enjoy! Ed Madden Ridgefield, WA USA