Travel with us as we journey through Ireland from County Meath, to Dublin, to County Cavan to County Galway. And all of this without boarding an airplane or riding a coach. It will happen all through Irish films which remind us of the “ties that bind.”

Each of these films shows the Irish in the above listed counties and the characters all in unique situations Our free Irish film series will be held on three consecutive Wednesdays and a Thursday beginning on January 25, 2012.

February 16 “Cré na Cille” (Graveyard Clay) is set in County Galway. (2007) Irish language with English subtitles. With candid wit and black humor, the film tells the intersecting stories of the occupants of a community of corpses in an Irish cemetery. The buried souls bring their gossip, rivalries and vendettas to life in this surreal and sarcastic take on rural Ireland. It is based on Máirtín Ó Cadhain's novel, widely considered one of the greatest Irish novels of the twentieth century. Fulbright teacher, Padraic Deiseach will host and introduce the film.

Note this film is scheduled for Thursday.