Oidhche Sheanchais

The first ever sound film utilizing spoken Irish. It is eleven minutes are well worth watching. It carries the spirit of days long past when there wasn't much entertainment in dark evenings other than sitting next to a fire and telling stories. The story told herein by Seáinín Tom Ó Dioráin is about fishermen and, as the film caption relates, "is a story that was already old a thousand years ago."

The story teller and the 3 listeners were all cast members in the 1934 Irish fictional documentary 'Man of Aran,' also directed, like this film, by Robert J. Flaherty.