Poit%C3%ADn (film)
Poitn 1977 was the first feature film to be made entirely in Irish. It was also the first recipient of a film script grant from the Arts Council of Ireland.
The film first aired to the Irish public on RT Television on Saint Patricks Day in 1979 and caused a national outrage.citation needed Taken by many as a direct insult to the idealized Western Irish identity, particularly pointing to the spud fight scene in the film, criticism echoed the response to John Millington Synges stageplay The Playboy of the Western World the Playboy Riots some seventy years earlier and the reaction to Brian ONolans Irish language novel An Bal Bocht some forty years prior, both of which also played on Irish stereotypes, to which Irish nationalists are sensitive.
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