Irish Personalities (1920)

Irish nationalism: various shots of Irish republican leaders - Eamon de Valera, William Cosgrave and Terence MacSwiney - and of barricades and ruins. Dublin, Eire (Southern Ireland, Republic of Ireland). Opens with courtroom scene; trial in progress; looking toward judge; table in FG; a man stands at the table; speaking; presumably a lawyer arguing a case; 2 other men sit at table. CU intense-looking man (probably Terence / Tomas MacSwiney -SL) sits looking at camera; then looks at papers on desk. ECU of Eamon de Valera speaking; smiling (this is a really good and rare C/U - SL). Next; some young boys stand by a street barricade of wood and barbed wire. Shots of more barricades running up steps and round building; more Irish kids standing around. A man (probably William Cosgrave) walks out of a door; sits in a chair on porch; opens book. Reading book. CU man speaking. Same guy with another. CU other guy. Next; various shots of bombed and burned railroad equipment; still smouldering charred frames of rai