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Date:
Sunday 14th March

Time:
11.00am

Venue:
The Irish Film Institute, Eustace Street, Dublin 2

Tickets:
€5 per child. Family ticket (2 adults, 2 kids) €15
www.ifi.ie or Tel: 01 679 3477

The IFI’s March family screening, in celebration of St. Patrick's Festival, was a firm family favourite. This lively adaptation of Walter Macken's novel is a heartwarming, funny, often suspenseful story of two runaway children, Finn Dove (Jack Wilde) and Derval Dove (Helen Raye), fleeing from a cruel British stepfather to their Irish grandmother in Galway. They encounter a host of evil characters along the way (many of them played by Ron Moody) and have some fun at a St Patrick's Day Parade where they join a cosmopolitan group of marchers to sing ”You don't have to be Irish to be Irish".

The films most memorable musical number however must be the haunting "Far Off Place" sung by Sheila, a peasant girl, played by a young Dana Rosemary Scallon, fresh from her Eurovision success.