RARE footage of life within the parish of Ballinascreen in the 1960’s has been causing a stir on social media over the past few days.
The footage, which was captured by then Ballinascreen Parish Priest, Fr Michael Collins, and Derry-born filmmaker, Terence McDonnell, focuses on all aspects of parish life including work and social gatherings.
The film, adeptly named ‘Ballinascreen’ was digitised as part of a project undertaken by the Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive (DFA), to gather content from right across Northern Ireland and make it available for local people to enjoy.
The DFA contains over 90 hours of moving images about life in pre- Partition Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1897 to 2014. There are items covering drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreels, amateur and actuality film.
Visitors to this website will be able to search and view many of the films in the collection.
This story is from the 7 November 2017 edition of County Derry Post.
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