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[[File:Knocknagow.jpg|left|thumb|The silent film "Knocknagow" aka "The Homes of Tipperary"]] |
[[File:Knocknagow.jpg|left|thumb|The silent film "Knocknagow" aka "The Homes of Tipperary"]] |
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The business was registered in March 1916, by her husband,<ref name=col>{{Cite web |title=Ellen O’Mara Sullivan – Women Film Pioneers Project |url=https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ellen-omara-sullivan/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=wfpp.columbia.edu}}</ref> they and Henry M. Fitzgibbon.<ref name=ci>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSmvAgAAQBAJ&dq=james+sullivan&pg=PT28 |title = Cinema and Ireland|isbn = 9781317928577|last1 = Rockett|first1 = Kevin|last2 = Gibbons|first2 = Luke|last3 = Hill|first3 = John|date = 2014-01-21}}</ref> By 1917 she had written a screenplay<ref>{{Citation |title=Knocknagow |date=1918 |url=http://archive.org/details/Knocknagow |access-date=2022-04-16}}</ref> and the company was filming an ambitious film based on the book [[Knocknagow]]. The film supported her family's nationalist aspirations.<ref name=screen/> Knocknagow was not completed until the following year. Knocknagow is one of two of the films they made was still extant and it is dated 1918 on one film.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Early Irish Cinema: A New Industry: The Film Company of Ireland’s First Season – Film Ireland Magazine |url=https://filmireland.net/2017/06/14/early-irish-cinema-a-new-industry-the-film-company-of-irelands-first-season/ |access-date=2022-04-16 |language=en-GB}}</ref> However they made many more and their film company is said to be the "most prolific indigenous film company" throughout the whole of the silent film era.<ref name=col/> |
The business was registered in March 1916, by her husband,<ref name=col>{{Cite web |title=Ellen O’Mara Sullivan – Women Film Pioneers Project |url=https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ellen-omara-sullivan/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=wfpp.columbia.edu}}</ref> they and Henry M. Fitzgibbon.<ref name=ci>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSmvAgAAQBAJ&dq=james+sullivan&pg=PT28 |title = Cinema and Ireland|isbn = 9781317928577|last1 = Rockett|first1 = Kevin|last2 = Gibbons|first2 = Luke|last3 = Hill|first3 = John|date = 2014-01-21}}</ref> During the [[Easter Rising]] in 1916, the FCOI's [[O'Connell Street|Sackville Street]]<nowiki/>offices in Dublin were destroyed and the company moved to 34 Dame Street.<ref name="Felter">{{cite journal |last1=Felter |first1=Maryanne |last2=Schultz |first2=Daniel |title=James Mark Sullivan and the Film Company of Ireland |journal=New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua |date=2004 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=24–40 |jstor=20557923 |issn=1092-3977}}</ref> |
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By 1917 she had written a screenplay<ref>{{Citation |title=Knocknagow |date=1918 |url=http://archive.org/details/Knocknagow |access-date=2022-04-16}}</ref> and the company was filming an ambitious film based on the book [[Knocknagow]]. The film supported her family's nationalist aspirations.<ref name="screen" /> Knocknagow was not completed until the following year. Knocknagow is one of two of the films they made was still extant and it is dated 1918 on one film.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Early Irish Cinema: A New Industry: The Film Company of Ireland’s First Season – Film Ireland Magazine |url=https://filmireland.net/2017/06/14/early-irish-cinema-a-new-industry-the-film-company-of-irelands-first-season/ |access-date=2022-04-16 |language=en-GB}}</ref> However they made many more and their film company is said to be the "most prolific indigenous film company" throughout the whole of the silent film era.<ref name="col" /> |
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In 1919 her son caught typhoid and Ellen caught the disease and died. The film company ended the following year once the three films in production had been completed.<ref name=col/> |
In 1919 her son caught typhoid and Ellen caught the disease and died. The film company ended the following year once the three films in production had been completed.<ref name=col/> |
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Revision as of 13:24, 16 April 2022
Ellen O’Mara Sullivan | |
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| Born | Ellen O'Mara June 6, 1882 |
| Died | May 17, 1919 (aged 36) |
| Nationality | Ireland |
| Known for | directing Film Company of Ireland |
| Spouse | James Mark Sullivan |
Ellen (Nell) O’Mara Sullivan (June 6, 1882 – May 17, 1919) was an Irish silent film screenwriter and film company director. The company her family funded and ran was said to be the most prolific Irish silent film company.
Life
She was born into the large family of Stephen O'Mara who was the Mayor of Limerick and an Irish nationalist. Her family were nationalists and her father had resigned as a Member of Parliament in 1907 in order to support Sinn Féin.[1]
In 1910 she married James Mark Sullivan who was an Irish-born American coming back to Ireland to sort out family bequests.[1]
Using her family's money they started the Film Company of Ireland which created dozens of silent films.[2]
The business was registered in March 1916, by her husband,[2] they and Henry M. Fitzgibbon.[3] During the Easter Rising in 1916, the FCOI's Sackville Streetoffices in Dublin were destroyed and the company moved to 34 Dame Street.[4]
By 1917 she had written a screenplay[5] and the company was filming an ambitious film based on the book Knocknagow. The film supported her family's nationalist aspirations.[1] Knocknagow was not completed until the following year. Knocknagow is one of two of the films they made was still extant and it is dated 1918 on one film.[6] However they made many more and their film company is said to be the "most prolific indigenous film company" throughout the whole of the silent film era.[2]
In 1919 her son caught typhoid and Ellen caught the disease and died. The film company ended the following year once the three films in production had been completed.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "The Making of an Irish Nationalist: James Mark Sullivan and the Film Company of Ireland in America". Retrieved 2022-04-16.
- ^ a b c d "Ellen O'Mara Sullivan – Women Film Pioneers Project". wfpp.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ Rockett, Kevin; Gibbons, Luke; Hill, John (2014-01-21). Cinema and Ireland. ISBN 9781317928577.
- ^ Felter, Maryanne; Schultz, Daniel (2004). "James Mark Sullivan and the Film Company of Ireland". New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua. 8 (2): 24–40. ISSN 1092-3977. JSTOR 20557923.
- ^ Knocknagow, 1918, retrieved 2022-04-16
- ^ "Early Irish Cinema: A New Industry: The Film Company of Ireland's First Season – Film Ireland Magazine". Retrieved 2022-04-16.