Kew Media Group: Catalogue: I, Dolours

I, Dolours

Director:

Maurice Sweeney

Producer:

Featuring:

Dolours Price

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A cinematic yet intimate and complex portrait of Dolours Price, militant IRA activist, hunger striker
and dissident Republican who two years before she died gave a filmed interview on condition that
it would not be broadcast in her lifetime. Now for the first time her story can be told in full and
entirely in her own words.

This shocking film brings us deep inside the IRA and charts one woman’s journey from passionate
idealist into disillusioned cynic, haunted by the memories of the terrible things she did for a cause
she once so strongly believed in, she killed for it but, for which she believes was ultimately
betrayed.

Dolours Price resists easy stereotyping – she was a ruthless revolutionary/terrorist who didn’t
shirk any task, however brutal. She demanded her equal place among the male-dominated
members of the IRA and was pitiless in her scorn for those who didn’t share her total commitment.
She was also a beautiful, charismatic woman, loving mother, devoted sister and friend. She was
passionate but fragile, dogmatic, yet tortured.

Fascinating, moving and at times deeply disturbing - this is her story.

*****

PRESS REVIEWS:

“Sheds new light on a notorious murder in Northern Ireland” – THE NEW YORKER

“Of all the films that have been made about the IRA in recent years this is by far the most powerful, honest and disturbing” – THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH

“I, Dolours brings Price’s story to vivid, brutal life” – NOW TORONTO

“The idea of watching an explosive, never-before-seen interview from beyond the grave has a curious, morbid appeal to it” – THE IRISH NEWS

“Chilling” – THE NEW YORKER

“Sad, beautiful, delicate and finely crafted, this is a major film” – GUTH GAFA

“Shows the massive impact... on Dolours Price’s life in a very honest, deeply moving documentary” – MEADTH CHRONICLE

“I, Dolours is able to handle a loaded issue with respect, treating its source with dignity but without falling into reverence, exploring the history without accepting it” - POV MAGAZINE

“As a last memoir and portrait of Price, I, Dolours acts as an unsettling but captivating watch” – THE IRISH NEWS

“A chilling account” – THE IRISH TIMES

“Apart from the insight into the IRA and the descent into hell of Northern Ireland this film offers a rare glimpse into the pathway to radicalisation of an intelligent young woman — the motivation and excitement leading to violence and ultimately despair. It is a story which is more relevant today than ever” – NEW DECADE

“With such controversial subject matter, I, Dolours has all the appeal of being let in on a secret. Intimately, we gain access to forbidden knowledge, the indulgence of gossip being grounded by the severity of real events” – POV MAGAZINE

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A cinematic yet intimate and complex portrait of Dolours Price, militant IRA activist, hunger striker

and dissident Republican who two years before she died gave a filmed interview on condition that
it would not be broadcast in her lifetime. Now for the first time her story can be told in full and
entirely in her own words.

View More>>