Links, Research and News
This page provides hyperlinks to online Donnellan resources and news about Donnellan screenings and activities.
Archives and Libraries
The Philip Donnellan Archive is held at the Birmingham City Archives which also holds the Charles Parker Archive which contains relevant materials. See http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/archives . At the moment the Archive is not fully catalogued although a sense of the extent of the Archive can be gained by downloading the attached PDF of the holdings.
Download: Birmingham City Archives.pdf
For information on Donnellan's work with the folk musician Ewan MacColl see the entry at the Working Class Movement Library: http://www.wcml.org.uk/people/em/radio.htm.
Conferences
Find out about the Charles Parker Day at http://media.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/cbhr_parkerday.html.
The Irishmen
The importance of the 'The Irishmen' is underlined by a citation in the Irish parliament in a discussion on post-war migration - see: Dáil Éireann - Volume 578 - 27 January, 2004, Private Members' Business. - Economic Plight of Irish Emigrants: Motion at http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0578/D.0578.200401270029.html
Extracts from 'The Irishmen' can be accessed at the Aisling Project at http://www.aisling.org.uk/pages/video.htm if you have RealPlayer.
The Colony
'The Colony' in placed within the context of the BBC's varying treatment of Caribbean migrants at the website of Urban Black and Caribbean Canadian Learning Resource Network in THE CARIBBEAN PRESENCE ON THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (BBC) ON TELEVISION AND RADIO - A CHRONOLOGY 1948-98 Compiled and Introduced by Stephen Bourne see: http://www.ccmacanada.org/urban/blackbrithistory/radioandtv.htm
Project Collaborators and friends:
Find out about The Department of Media & Communication at UCE at www.mediacourses.com.
Banner Theatre at http://www.bannertheatre.co.uk.
Screen West Midlands at http://www.screenwm.co.uk.
7-Inch Cinema.com at http://www.7inch.org.uk.
