Ireland-Japan Series Final Event

Documentary ’75 Years in Japan’

Friday 5^th of April 7pm

KBG13

The final event in the current series exploring connections between Ireland and Japan will be a documentary about Ireland’s last missionary nun in Japan about a Cork woman, Jennie O’Sullivan, who travelled to Japan in 1935 as a missionary nun, only finally returning to Ireland in 2000. The French St Maur order of which she was a member founded secondary schools for girls in Japan from the 1880s onwards and still runs a number of schools there. Despite being from a neutral country, she was interned in Japan during the Second World War but emerged at war’s end to continue teaching.

This 52-minute documentary is based largely on interviews with Jennie O’ Sullivan and the Japanese people who knew her.

The film will be followed by a question and answer session with James Creedon, a journalist with the France 24 news TV station in Paris, who made the film.

"75 YEARS IN JAPAN' ("Thanks to your Noble Shadow")

a documentary about Ireland's last missionary nun in Japan

Blog: 75yearsinJapan.wordpress.com

Trailer: https://vimeopro.com/user30791642/elisabeth-feytit-english/video/298371188

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThanksToYourNobleShadow

Barbara Geraghty,　ゲラティ・バーバラ

Roinn na Seapáinise ・Japanese Section・日本語セクション主任

Scoil na Nua-Theangacha agus na Teangeolaíochta Feidhmí,

School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics,

現代言語・応用言語学研究

Ollscoil Luimnigh・University of Limerick・アイルランド国立リムリック大学

Luimneach・Limerick・リムリック