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LOCAL artist Christina Bennett is working on a film about the early days of Shannon, entitled Sionna Go Breá. She took the title from a song that was frequently sung at a youth club she used to go to in the town back in the 1970s. “Seán Ó Nuanáin used to run a little club for us all called Club na Sionna. He arrived in 1964. He got very interested in the Irish language, and when he arrived there would have just been the flats,” she said. “They were building Drumgeely and Drumgeely Hall was there, it was the only community outlet they had. He set up a youth club delivered in Irish called Club na Sionna and when I went to it in the 70s we used to sing Sionna Go Breá every night and that’s what I called the film.” Like many others, Christina arrived from the North in the 1970s and is also working on a film …
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