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Lyra

Film Club

Film
Lyra 2
Date & time Wed 8 Mar 2023
8pm

Lyra is an emotive, intimate portrait of the life and death of Belfast journalist Lyra Mckee, who was murdered by the New IRA the day before Good Friday, April 2019.

Directed by her friend, documentarian Alison Millar, the film seeks answers to her senseless killing through Lyra’s own work and words. In just 29 years, she rose from working-class roots in the epicenter of war-torn Belfast to become an internationally renowned investigative journalist, who sought justice for forgotten crimes amid the euphoria surrounding the 1998 Good Friday Peace agreement. As the voice of her ceasefire generation, Lyra represented hope for a future free of conflict. Her killing casts a dark shadow over a land trying to shake off the shackles of its violent past.

Dir: Alison Millar, 92 mins, Ireland, 2022

brilliant life and tragic death of Northern Ireland’s fearless young reporter The Guardian
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