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{{Infobox film
| name =  Irish and Proud of It
| image =
| caption =
| director = [[Donovan Pedelty]]
| producer = {{ubl|Victor M. Greene|Donovan Pedelty}}
| writer =  {{ubl|Dorothea Donn-Byrne|[[David Evans (writer)|David Evans]]|Donovan Pedelty}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Richard Hayward (actor)|Richard Hayward]]|[[Dinah Sheridan]]|[[Liam Gaffney]]}}
| music = [[Colin Wark]]
| cinematography = {{ubl|[[Germain Burger]]|[[Geoffrey Faithfull]]}}
| editing = Hans Nieter
| studio = Crusade Films
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1936|11}}
| runtime = 78 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget =
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'''''Irish and Proud of It''''' is a 1936 [[comedy film]] directed and co-written by [[Donovan Pedelty]] and starring [[Richard Hayward (actor)|Richard Hayward]], [[Dinah Sheridan]] and [[Liam Gaffney]] produced in the [[Irish Free State]] period.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090205125521/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37831 BFI.org]</ref> In the film, a popular London-based Irish singer announces one evening how much he would love to go home to his home village in rural Ireland. For a prank, some of his friends take him up on this offer. He is kidnapped and deposited on a wild moor. He returns to the village of his youth, slightly disorientated, and battles an American gangster who has taken control of the settlement.
It was made at [[Wembley Studios]] as a [[quota quickie]] for release by the British subsidiary of [[Paramount Pictures]].<ref>Chibnall p.289</ref>
==Cast==
* [[Richard Hayward (actor)|Richard Hayward]] as Donogh O'Connor
* [[Dinah Sheridan]] as Moira Flaherty
* [[Gwenllian Gill]] as Mary Johnson
* [[George Pembroke]] as Mike Finnegan
* [[Liam Gaffney]] as Sean Casey
* Herbert Thorpe as Benito Colombo
* Jimmy Mageean as Old Flaherty
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007.
* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0170062}}
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[[Category:1936 films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:1936 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Wembley Studios]]
[[Category:Films set in Ireland]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:Films directed by Donovan Pedelty]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:1930s British films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Colin Wark]]
[[Category:English-language comedy films]]
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