Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn

Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn is a 1920 Irish silent film adaptation of William Carleton's 1855 novel Willy Reilly and His Dear Colleen Bawn: A Tale Founded Upon Fact made by the Film Company of Ireland.A Catholic landowner, Willy Reilly, falls in love with Helen Folliard (the Colleen Bawn), the daughter of a Protestant Squire,[4] after being invited to his home for saving him from Red Rapparee.Reilly is required to convert if he wishes to marry into the family, with her father favoring another suitor, Sir Robert Whitecraft, a persecutor of Catholics.Afterwards, Helen remains wistful until she is reunited with Reilly and her father accepts their relationship despite their different religions.[11] John MacDonagh left for Scotland immediately following the end of production in order to evade arrest[12] after directing the Dáil Bonds film, also known as the Republican Loan film, which featured prominent republicans including Michael Collins and families of executed 1916 leaders.
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