Balbháin (2020)

Balbháin is a poetic short drama exploring the connection between language and identity in two generations: that of a young Gaeltacht woman emigrating to Scotland in the 1950s who breaks a two-thousand-year language chain when she decides not to speak Irish with her children, and her grandson who is attempting to restore that link seventy years later, despite the struggle to secure his place in the language and culture of his forebears.

Gearrdhráma filiúnta do bheirt aisteoirí is ea Balbháin a chíorann an ceangal idir teanga agus féiniúlacht in dhá ghlúin: bean óg Gaeltachta ar imirce in Albain a réabann slabhra dhá mhíle bliain teanga nuair a chinneann sí gan Ghaeilge a labhairt lena páistí, agus an garmhac aiteach léi atá ag déanamh a dhíchill an tsnaidhm a athcheangal seachtó bliain níos déanaí, gidh nach léir dó go bhfuil áit i dteanga a mhuintir dá leithéid.

cast

Alasdair: Sam Ó Fearraigh
Annie: Muireann Ní Raghallaigh

crew

Writer/Scríbhneoir: Sam Ó Fearraigh
Director/Stiúrthóir: Conor Kennedy Burke
Editor/Eagarthóir: Conor Kennedy Burke
Cinematographer/Ceamaradóir: Paul D’Eath
Sound/Innealtóir Fuaime: Niall Clarke
Technician/Teicneoir: Noel McKee

This work was commissioned as part of Ceangal | Dolen II, a sectoral conference for the Irish language, Scots Gaelic and Welsh language theatre.
With special thanks to Ealaín na Gaeltachta.

Coimisiúnaíodh an dráma seo don chomhdháil Ceangal | Dolen II i nGaillimh, Samhain 2020.
Buíochas le hEalaín na Gaeltachta as an mhaoiniú.