Kings of Spades - Looking Back
In 1938 a British film crew made a documentary about a 150 year old Shovel Mill in Monard Glen, outside Cork City. We returned in 2023 to talk to some of the descendants who were featured in the film and to reflect on the history of the Glen.
See also a companion screening, the 1940 films Kings of Spades, a British film chronicling the lives of the men who owned and worked in the Monard Ironworks in Co Cork which operated from 1790 to the early 1960s. Screening as part of Cork on Camera: IFI Local Films for Local People.