Rocky Road to Dublin (film)

Rocky Road to Dublin
Directed byPeter Lennon
StarringSeán Ó Faoláin
Conor Cruise O'Brien
John Huston
Father Michael Cleary
CinematographyRaoul Coutard
Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryIreland
LanguageEnglish

Rocky Road to Dublin is a 1967 Irish documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, "what do you do with your revolution once you've got it?" It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making. The film exposes the truth of a repressed, suppressed and censored country, and the hypocrisy of church, politics and state, through a series of 'innocent' interviews.