The Irish people take on the banks documentary

700 Irish people are taking individual cases for €1 million each against their banks. A group called Debt Options are providing a free service to better assist people to do so. This is an independent documentary about their story.

The Irish People take on the banks

Directed and edited by Marcus Howard

Ireland 2013 A National Disgrace Documentary

Hi here is a link to a documentary I made at the Arms Around Moore Street protest on April 21^st. Has the eviction of Irish history begun?  If you compare this to how America remembers it's history with The Alamo, Holland with the Ann Frank Museum and Belfast with the Titanic Museum is Irish history being celebrated in a similar fashion? This video features interviews and speeches from 1916 relatives of James Connolly, Thomas MacDonagh, John O’Connor and others, it has a recreation of a James Larkin speech performed 100 years ago at this event, there is a rousing rendition of the national anthem performed by Diarmuid Breatnach followed by a montage of gravestones from Arbour Hill and Glasnevin cemetery where the 1916 leaders are buried with quotes. Every Irish kid studied about this in school as these actions lead to the birth of the Irish state.  How should this be remembered? The freedoms we have today were obtained by their actions.  Do you think it should be knocked down?

Ireland 2013 A National Disgrace

Directed and edited by Marcus Howard

O'Fiaich College Open Day videos for PLC and second level courses

A selection of Open Day videos made by students I teach for O'Fiaich college.

O'Fiaich College Open Day (2013)

Uploaded by ofiaich1 on 26th April 2013

 

O'Fiaich College Open Day (Second Level)

 

Uploaded by ofiaich1 on 26th April 2013

 

Here is a link to the 3rd video below

 

O'Fiaich College Open Day 2013 PLC Courses

 

 

Ireland 2013 The Great Bailout (HD)

Ireland 2013 The Great Bailout (HD)

Directed and edited by Marcus Howard. .If 1913 was remembered historically in Ireland as the year of the Great Lockout will 2013 be remembered as the year of Ireland's Great Bailout? This video looks at the Campaign Against Household and Water charges march on 13th April 2013, the weekend that EU members were in Dublin Castle discussing the way forward for the EU and Ireland. The video combines footage of the protest as well as some of the speakers like Richard Boyd Barrett, Joan Burton and Joe Higgins, who are elected representatives of the Irish people in opposition to the current Irish Government. All classes and groups of people from all walks of life united to show the red card to what is being done to the people of Ireland. The video also mentions a little bit about the Save Our Forests campaign and future plans for May 1st. I was amazed at the wave after wave of people from all over Ireland marching in protest and of the creativity of the posters. As a fan of history I thought the march was particuarly poignant because of the 100 year anniversary. I am an independent documentary filmmaker who was just interested in capturing this event.

If you would like to see a video of a tiny little village in Ireland who are taking on the might of the EU, the ECB, the IMF, the Irish Government and the banks please watch this. They have protested every week for over 110 weeks and are beginning to make some headway. They are attracting some international media but are being mostly ignored by Irish mainstream media. It will only take 15 mins of your time to watch. I made the "Ireland 2016 European Rising" series. Thanks for taking your time to read this. Marcus Howard

Ireland says NO! to bank debt

Directed and edited by Marcus Howard

Media Ownership and Control

Section 2: Ownership and Control

This section will be exploring how media ownership affects media provision, taking account of power influence on social, cultural, political and economic dimensions, by identifying sources of power within, for example media agencies (self-regulatory bodies and statutory regulators) media corporations and organisations online, print, broadcast , both public and private media concentration & cross media ownership Click on this Wikipedia link to find out some interesting facts and statistics about the media in Ireland. The link mentions statistics about the press and can be viewed here Here is a link to another useful article in Wikipedia to freedom of the press and it's importance worldwide You may find this article useful about RTE and this one for TV3 and this one for TG4 Here is a link to one of the largest media corporations in the world, News Corporation, owned by Rupert Murdoch and his family. What do you think are the intention of the following pictures? What do you think they are trying to say? An interesting debate can be found here about trusting the news (although it applies mostly to the US) Are all these newspapers telling the same story in the same way?

Ireland 2016 The European Rising Part 5

Ireland 2016 The European Rising Part 5 The Media

Published on Mar 19, 2013 Directed and edited by Marcus Howard

Directed and edited by Marcus Howard. The real St Patrick's Weekend march of 2013 took place in Dublin but you probably didn't hear about it because of the media. On 16th March a selection of Irish austerity groups, independent media for Irish people gathered together outside RTE studios to protest media bias. Interviews are included with TNS Radio, This part focuses on the battle for Irish media.

Aisling Fitzgibbons (The Girl against Fluoride), Direct Democracy Ireland, Debtoptions, the National Demand Licensing Campaign. This part also features footage of the Ballyhea Bondholder Bailout movement who are achieving the attention of global media yet feel ignored by RTE, Ireland's public service broadcaster. RTE is a semi-state company. Marcus Howard, the maker of this documentary series is independent of all these organizations. He is a teacher of Media analysis and runs a free educational blog. RTE remain the only news company to have issue with this documentary series who removed part 2 of the Ireland 2016 European Rising series. Thankfully it was only a few seconds of footage that was disputed. So I removed the disputed content and reuploaded it. News company footage which I have used in previous parts such as Euronews, TV3, TG4, BBC, RT have had no issue with any of the footage I have used.This documentary is for educational purposes for teaching media analysis. It is not for profit but simply an educational critique. Feel free to disagree but I advise you to look up what these groups and organisations are about before you decide. All these groups are representing issues affecting Irish people and are uniformly feeling ignored by RTE. 

So now you know about it. What are you going to do?

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