"Disgraceful and disgusting"
"It's a national disgrace"
"It's a direct insult. St. Patrick was a decent man".
"Disgraceful that visitors should see that film. No one should tolerate that".
"You have no sense of decency. That film was not suitable for family viewing".
"What part of Connemara was it filmed in?"

The script for Poitín (based on a short story by Colm Bairéad) won the first ever film script award of the Irish Arts Council.

The film was subsequently awarded an educational certificate for secondary school students by the Minister for Education.

REVIEWS

"I was reminded of John Millington Synges plays, particularly The Playboy of the Western World in some of the scenes"
Martin Dowle, Edinburgh Festival

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