Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive is a free public access resource for teachers, students, historians and anyone who has an interest in moving images. Spanning from 1897 to the present day, the films in the Digital Film Archive cover all aspects of life in Northern Ireland and includes everything from dramas to documentaries, newsreels and features, animation to amateur footage.
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Irish Open Amateur Championship
Golfers compete in the prestigious tournament.
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Overview
The Mourne mountains provide a majestic backdrop for this celebrated golf championship. The film reveals the singular facets of the course, the nestling greens and the beautiful turf. Competitors and spectators traipse from one hole to another. Interspersed are images of the golfers teeing-off and putting.
The Irish Open Amateur Championship, inaugurated in 1892, was regularly played at Royal County Down. The event was played in match play format before changing to strokeplay in 1958. In 1955 the title was won by Cork's J.F. Fitzgibbon. These colourful rushes are amongst a wealth of footage that was generated by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board. This government department had their own staff who documented the region through stills and moving images and the films they created capture various facets of life in Northern Ireland. This material captures Northern Ireland at an interesting time, post-World War Two and pre-Troubles.
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