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Peter Gerard Lennon (28 February 1930 – 18 March 2011) was an Irish journalist and film director, probably best known as director of the social history documentary film Rocky Road to Dublin. He worked for The Guardian newspaper for many years.
Apr 14, 2020 · ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN is a provocative and revealing portrait of Ireland in the Sixties, a society characterized by a stultifying educational system, a morally repressive...
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- Cian O Donnell
Mar 19, 2011 · He was the Paris correspondent for the Guardian when he was inspired to go home and make the film—with the participation of the great French cameraman Raoul Coutard.
Peter Lennon used to say of his documentary Rocky Road to Dublin that "the French saw it as a film, the Irish as an insult." Lennon was one of those absentee Irishmen obsessed by their native...
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Mar 22, 2011 · THE ADMIRABLE Peter Lennon, who has died in London at the age of 81, has been listed as "a journalist" in most obituaries. True enough. Raised in Dublin, the son of a salesman, whose family had...
Dublin-born, PETER LENNON worked for the IRISH TIMES before going to Paris in 1955 as a teacher of English in a French school. For the past three years he has been cultural correspondent in...
