The Outsiders Who Built Irish Entertainment - Wendy Elliman

This book tells the story of the birth of modern entertainment in Ireland through two generations of a remarkable immigrant family who helped shape it – from the birth of cinema through to the end of Hollywood’s Golden Age.Maurice Elliman arrived in Dublin in 1892 as a penniless refugee from Tsarist Russia. He started out by projecting magic lantern shows in travelling fairgrounds. By the time he died some fifty years later, he was hailed as a pioneer of cinema and ‘the father of the Dublin... Zobrazit více