New Irish Industry (1926)

Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Eire. Title: “NEW IRISH INDUSTRY, The Most Rev. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Kildare, turns the first sod of the Carlow Beet Sugar Factory“. M/S of a man giving a speech in front of a crowd of men, women and children, pan to show three official looking men standing apart from the crowd, listening to the speaker. C/U of the man speaking. M/S of the speaker passing a shovel to one of the official looking men - the Bishop? - who drives it into the ground. C/U of the Bishop giving a speech. M/S of the crowd gathered around the Bishop as he lifts a sod of earth... with the shovel, everyone applauds. M/S of the Bishop (wearing a top hat) standing in a field talking to two men, one of the men points towards something. Panning shot along a group of forty or so men, they look like they are posing for a photograph. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND

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