An Buachaill Gealgháireach

TG4

11:30 PM to 1:10 AM

Saturday 8 February

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The untold story of Irish song The Laughing Boy, written by Brendan Behan in memory of revolutionary, soldier and politician Michael Collins. With an extraordinary afterlife as To Yelasto Paidi, it became the powerful left-wing anthem of resistance in Greece in the late Sixties. The film takes poet Theo Dorgan on an odyssey of his own, as he uncovers the truth of the story behind the song. It is a narrative that interweaves the tragic and bloody birth-pangs of both modern Ireland and modern Greece. However, these histories are also bound together by something more profound and transcendent - the power of a song