A new movie directed by Co Monaghan Táine King has been chosen to enter the Galway Film Fleadh.
The short-film focuses on the deaths of Emily and Mary Wilde, the half-sisters of Irish poet, novelist and dramatist, Oscar Wilde.
The sisters lost their lives in a tragic fire at Drumaconnor House just off the Monaghan/Clones road back in 1871. The Oram director said she was intrigued by the story of both women, a story which she believes is still very much alive among the people of the Kilmore/Drumsnatt parish.
Ms King who has worked in the film industry for many years says it was "important" for her to take this story back to Monaghan and shoot it within the locality, using local people and a local cast. The local film maker told Northern Sound that she has been "blown away" by the response her short film has received so far.
