Give Up Yer Aul Sins

Directed by Cathal Gaffney · Starring Maria McDermottroe · 2001

Animated to real 1960s classroom recordings, a Dublin schoolgirl retells the story of John the Baptist in her own wonderfully imaginative way.

Oscar-nominated gem bringing a real Dublin schoolgirl's hilariously earnest Bible story to life.

Give Up Yer Aul Sins is an Academy Award nominated short film, which humorously reenacts original recordings of Dublin schoolrooms in the 1960s made by Peig Cunningham and subsequently rediscovered and released by EMI. I

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