IRE
1977
1hr 32mins
Dir: Joseph Strick
Starring: John Gielgud and Rosaleen Linehan
A film depicting James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in late nineteenth-century Dublin
This film adaptation of James Joyce’s 1916 novel of the same name has a railway sequence that was filmed on the Dublin – Cork – Cobh line using Railway Preservation Society of Ireland steam locomotives 171 Slieve Gullion and No.184. The pair were in fact operating the RPSI’s “Seandún” railtour at the time, an interesting and clever use of a real main line steam working.