Poitín was the recipient of the first script grant from the newly-formed Arts Council. The legitimacy that such a grant might bestow was quickly dispelled when Poitín was completed in time to be aired on St. Patrick's Day, 1979. The Irish public was outraged, and calls to ban the film rang out. The reasons for this kind of agitation are not hard to see: Quinn's tale of a hermet... (展開(kāi)全部)