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Silence<\/strong>, written & directed by Pat Collins<\/center><\/div>\n

There seems to be a lot of Rory Gallagher’s music making its way into television and films of late. Director Marian Quinn used the song I Fall Apart<\/em> during a crucial scene in her “coming of age” movie, 32A<\/a><\/strong>. Joel Conroy used In Your Town<\/em> in his documentary about surfing off the coast of the Emerald Isle called, Waveriders<\/a><\/strong>. And then there was the television series about a boxer trying to make a comeback, aptly named Lights Out<\/a>,<\/strong> that used several of Rory’s tunes including the posthumously released Wheels Within Wheels<\/em>. You can add one more to the growing list. This coming week at the Dublin International Film Festival, a new film by Pat Collins, titled Silence<\/a><\/strong> will be screened, and Rory Gallagher’s I Fall Apart<\/em> is used in its opening credits. What better way to fill the Silence<\/em> than with a Rory Gallagher song!<\/p>\n

The story follows Eoghan O\u2019Suilleabh\u00e1in (Mac Giolla Bhr\u00edde), an
\nIrishman living in Berlin. He has been commissioned to undertake an
\nunusual project: to travel to the most remote areas in Ireland to record
\nsilence \u2013 as it may have existed before man\u2019s impact on the local
\ngeography. These locations are places where outsiders don\u2019t visit,
\nplaces inaccessible by public transport and often not documented by
\ncartography. These are places that strict notions of time subside and
\npast and present appear to merge into one.– Colm McAuliffe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Director Pat Collins had used Rory’s music previously in a documentary about the City of Cork called, Cathair Corcaigh<\/a><\/strong>. I wondered about the reason for including I Fall Apart<\/em> in his latest project. It turns out that a steady diet of Rory’s music was served in the Collins household:<\/p>\n

I grew up listening to Rory Gallagher\u2019s music. I remember when Rory Gallagher played the Macroom Mountain Dew Festival in 77 and my two older brothers went, all torn jeans and denim jackets…but I was too young to go. I was only ten at the time. But his music was always on in the house. Calling Card was the first album I remember but the 74 tour and early Taste records were around as well. I used a Rory Gallagher track \u2018Walk on Hot Coals\u2019 in another documentary I made about Cork City called \u2018Cathair Chorca\u00ed\u2019. <\/p>\n

For \u2018Silence\u2019 we were also looking at a Neil Young track ( the guitar solo in \u2018Words\u2019) but it was the fact that the character was driving back from Germany to Ireland, it just seemed right that it should be a Rory Gallagher track. We tried lots of Rory songs but it was the editor\u2019s brother-in-law who said \u2018If I was driving from Germany to Ireland the Rory Gallagher song I would be listening to would be \u2018I Fall apart\u2019.\u201d So we tried it and were sold on it immediately.
\nWe wanted to show a fragment of a map in the driving sequence and the editor Tadhg O\u2019Sullivan put in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal. I think it was a joke against me and my Cork origins. — Pat Collins<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Below is the clip of the opening credits containing Rory Gallagher’s I Fall Apart<\/em>. Special thanks to producer Tina Moran for providing me with this film clip. Hopefully more and more Irish directors will include Rory’s music in their films. No finer thread could be woven into these rich Irish tapestries!<\/p>\n