Out Of Place Screening @ A4 Sounds
Out Of Place Screening @ A4 Sounds
Thu, Feb 16, 19:00
A4 Sounds (Artist Studios & Gallery) • Dublin
€11.70
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Patrick O'Connell documentary film screening and Q&A with Fergus Dowd
Screening of Patrick O'Connell documentary with Q&A with Fergus Dowd.
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TU Dublin Tallaght. Blessington Road D24 FKT9 Tallaght Ireland
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About this event
Patrick O'Connell Exhibition - The Man Who Saved F.C. Barcelona:
Patrick O'Connell was born at 11 Jones Terrace, now the entrance to Hill 16 at Croke Park.
He was a man of firsts - the first Irishman to captain Manchester United football club, the first man to lead Real Betis to their first Spanish Football Championship and a member of the Irish team who won their first ever international football tournament.
From 1935 to 1940, Patrick O'Connell was manager of F.C. Barcelona; he is attributed with saving the club from financial ruin by taking his team on the tour of salvation to Mexico, raising enough monies to keep the club alive during the Spanish Civil War.
Here is a man whose life transcended the Easter Rising, World War I, The Spanish Civil War and World War II.... one of the greatest stories in Irish sporting history.
An excerpt of the film will be screened on the evening with the Q&A afterwards.
Film director: Michael Andersen.
Exhibition funded by Dublin City Council.