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    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats

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    Poster of the movie A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats
    2016     Documentary    
    Ireland
    1h 40min

    Through performances of some of Yeats' most iconic poems by leading Irish and British cultural figures, Bob Geldof reveals how Yeats and others built the scaffolding of a new independent Ireland decades before the Rising - but how Yeats' vision for a modern, pluralist, inclusive Ireland was pushed aside by the narrow-minded Catholic elite of the new Free State.

    Directed byGerry Hoban
    Written byRoy Foster, Bob Geldof

    Featuring

    John Boorman
    Roy Foster
    Stephen Fry
    Richard E. Grant
    Liam Neeson
    Dominic West
    + MORE

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