The Lad from Old Ireland
R: Sidney Olcott. B: Gene Gauntier. K: George Hollister. D: Sidney Olcott, Gene Gauntier, Arthur Donaldson, J P McGowan, Robert Vignola, Thomas O’Connor, Jane Wolfe, Laurene Santley, Agnes Mapes. P: Kalem Co. USA 1910
Locations: Killarney and surrounding area, Co. Kerry.
Print: Irish Film Archive; National Film & Television Archive.
German Titles

“The Lad from Old Ireland is regarded by some as the first American-produced fiction film made outside the USA (Sight and Sound, Oct-Nov 1953:96), though this may have been confused with what is contemporaneously described as ‘the first production ever made on two Continents’ (Bioscope, 12 January 1911:47). It may have been the first integrated fiction film made in Ireland. The available print, with intertitles in German, ends with the penultimate scene, at the cottage.”
Trinity College Dublin

Rory O’More
R: Sidney Olcott. B: Gene Gauntier, from the ballad and novel “Rory O’More” by Samuel Lover (1836, dramatised 1837). K: George Hollister. D: Jack J Clark, Gene Gauntier, Robert G Vignola, Arthur Donaldson, J P McGowan, Anna Dark. P: Kalem Co. USA 1911
Locations: Killarney and surrounding area, Co. Kerry.
Print: Irish Film Archive; National Film & Television Archive.

The historical figure Sir Rory O’Moore was a leader of the 1641 Rising against English rule in Ireland, though the period of this film is probably 1798-1803.
Trinity College Dublin