Upon the land that long knows how to tolerate suffering."
- J.P. Donleavy from the film JP Donleavy's Ireland
Not known if JPD was actually on the show or if it was a cast-only discussion.
Described as a show of art, music, and literature. Documentary and dramatizations. Producers: Robert Herridge Directors: Francis Moriarty, John McGiffert, John Desmond, Clair Roskam, Nick Havinga, Max Miller and Anthony Farrar. Show writers: Clair Roskam, Joseph Hurley and Sig Moglen.
"Fairy Tales of New York" ITV Play of the Week - aired Tuesday, June 6, 1961 9:35 pm - 90 min. Season 6, Episode 40. Granada Productions. Series directed by Peter Graham Scott. Production directed by Graham Evans - designed by William Brodie.
Starring: Robert Stephens as Cornelius Christian, with: Alan Gifford, Lionel Murton, Harry Towb, James Caincross, Milo O'Shea, Judith Conrow.
"Fairy Tales of
New York" Granada Television, Great Britain
- air date & time?
Director: Graham Evans - Script: J.P. Donleavy - Designer: William Brodie.
CAST:
Cornelius Christian
First Stevedore
Second Stevedore
Third Stevedore
Customs Man
Robert Stephens
Ted Carson
Irvin Allen
Michael Forrest
Francis Napier
And others...
To purchase books by J.P. Donleavy, go to the Buyers' Guide.
"The Ginger Man"
BBC Television, Great Britain - 1962. Air date?
Producer: Peter Drew - Director Peter Drew - Author of Original Work: J.P.
Donleavy - Designer: Margaret Peacock.
CAST:
Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield
Kenneth O'Keefe
Marion Dangerfield
Miss Frost
Ian Hendry
Ronald Fraser
Ann Bell
Margaret Tyzack
Director: Sheila Gregg. Hosts: Robert Kee & Bernard Levin. Guests: J.P. Donleavy - Yehudi Menuhin - Lynn Seyour - Beverley Nichols.
"An
Interview with J.P. Donleavy"
JPD on Late Nite Line Up, BBC 2 May 2, 1969
JPD one of those interviewed. Air date? Circa late '60s - early '70s. Details being researched.
1972 (various air dates)
Merv Griffin host. Guests: JPD, Bruce Dern, Bobby Vinton & David Frost
BBC, Great Britain, 1978 - air date - Nov. 3. Produced by Philip Speight - Directed by John Archer - Introduced by Robert Robinson.
Promo blurb:
Filmed in Dublin and his estate in County Westmeath, comic novelist and playwright J.P. Donleavy talks about his influences and obsessions.
A.B.C. New South Wales, Australia, 1980
Video cassette of broadcast. Researching content. Very scarce.
Writers Talk: Ideas of Our Times - JP Donleavy with Frank Delaney. The Roland Collection of Films and Videos on Art. 45 minutes. Color. Available in a variety of international formats including VHS-NTSC and PAL. Now available for streaming and downloading at http://www.rolandcollection.com/home.aspx#D1284
J.P. Donleavy appears in a segment of a series of "Guardian Interviews" in candid conversation with Frank Delaney, with additional questions asked later by members of the audience. 1987. A very interesting and entertaining interview. Highly recommended.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1989
Mystic Fire Video, VHS cassette. Very scarce. Details being researched.
The Luck of the Irish?
After Dark, Series 4, produced by Open Media, London - BBC broadcast March 16, 1991
With Trevor Hyett, J.P. Donleavy, Father Patrick Buckley, Patrick John Cosgrave, Senator David Norris, Emily O’Reilly, Paul Hill, Ethel Smith, Francis Stuart.
- 1992 - Written, narrated by and featuring JPD; produced and directed by Katherine R.R. Carpenter for The Discovery Channel and RTÉ-Ireland. 50 minutes. Color. VHS-NTSC format. ISBN 156812242X
Winner of the Worldfest Houston Gold Award 1992 and a Cine Golden Eagle Award in 1993, J.P. Donleavy's Ireland features the author reading passages from his book of the same title as well as from A Singular Country and The History of the Ginger Man while taking the viewer on a personal tour of "...the land that long knows how to tolerate suffering." A lot on Ireland and on the author. One highlight is a peek into Donleavy's study at Levington Park where he demonstrates how he revises his manuscripts - a manner quite unique. Highly recommended. Recently discontinued from the Discovery catalogue. Still available online through various outlets.
"In
All Her Sins and Graces: J.P. Donleavy's Ireland"
JPD's Ireland film (with modified title) aired on The Learning Channel 9 p.m.
November 18, 1992.
"J.P. Donleavy and The History of The Ginger Man"
Television
broadcast approximately
1994.
Details being researched.
"The
Irish In America: Long journey Home"
Diaspora Studies - produced in association with Walt Disney Studios, WGBH/Boston,
and Lennon Documentary Group/PBS. This episode: The Irish in America: Darby
and Fievel Do Not Go Home. Series Producer: Thomas Lennon. Narrator: Michael
Murphy.
Air dates and year: January 26-28, 1998.
Includes JPD.
"Maailm ja monda. JP Donleavy lirimaa"
Telekavad
- tele visioon, aired Feb. 26, 2000
JPD
interview conducted on Finnish television. Coincides with the publication
of the Finnish translation of The Ginger Man.
"Undercover Portraits"
Radio
Telefís Éireann, Orpheus Productions, Dublin, 2000 | video
cassette VHS
Details being researched.
"Iso Brown "
Emission
nº 10: January, 2001
Aired on French TV, montages cascading into one another. One brief segment
involves JPD's La dame qui aimait les toilettes propres (The
Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms).
RTÉ TV News, October 4, 2004. The question was asked,. "Which change in Ireland has surprised JP Donleavy most since he wrote The Ginger Man." JPD responds in a video clip, viewable with RealPlayer. http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1004/qanda.html
BBC Documentary on the creation of The Pogues' song "Fairytale of New York." Released, December 19, 2005 (UK).
Segment features interview with JPD regarding the song being inspired by his book, A Fairy Tale of New York.
"The Big Read"
BBC, April,
2007
Books were nominated for the "Big Read." The Ginger Man
came as the 4th. most- nominated book.
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