America's Other Irish








                      

                                                                                 

                                                                                                                              

America's Other Irish, presently in pre-production, will be a one-hour television documentary offering an overview of the Scotch-Irish influence on U.S. history and culture. This long-overdue program will take an unsentimental approach that will seek neither celebrate nor denigrate its subjects, but rather to present factual historical knowledge and a variety of viewpoints about their contributions to the American multi-cultural mosaic.

 

Redwine Productions of Atlanta, Georgia will produce the documentary in association with Borderline Productions of Belfast, Northern Ireland, under the sponsorship of the W.B. Yeats Foundation of Emory University in Atlanta. The Center for Irish Studies at Georgia Southern University will prepare outreach components.  The program will be offered to PBS and public service television in the U.K., Ireland, and Canada.  A companion book, study guides, interactive games and historic tours will complement  it.

 

Extensive research on the subject matter was made possible through  grants from the Ulster-Scots Agency in Northern Ireland, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the North Carolina Humanities Council, and the South Carolina Humanities Council. Additional sources of underwriting, particularly from organizations within the United States, are presently being sought to augment a script-writing grant from the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC) and to move the project forward into the production stage.

 

Your production grant for America's Other Irish will be acknowledged with on-air funding credits in the program, in a length and manner determined by PBS regulations and the proportion of your contribution to the overall production budget.  You will also be credited in accompanying promotional and educational print materials and on our Web site.  To explore how underwriting this program can help fulfill your philanthropic mission or benefit your corporate image, please contact us!

 

We have a remarkable story to tell, and we welcome a partnership with you to tell it.

 

 

 

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