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This video examines the wide and varied manner in which people from the region explore their social and cultural heritage within their everyday life.

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A visual exploration of the Easkey River by professional artists living in this locality. Most work is photography by Imelda Peppard, Henrietta Williams, Steve Rogers and Aiden Crotty, who also presents paintings derived from photographs. This journery begins with aerial photographs showing the course of the Easkey river from the Ox Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. A range of subjects includes people and their habitations along the course of the river, as well as the river itself. A soundtrack of natural sounds accompanies this production.

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Seven interviews with professional musicians including Charlie McGettigan, Sandy Kelly, Seamus O'Dowd, James Blennerhassett, Niamh Crowley, Steve Wickham and Tabby.. These interviews and the production of the DVD were done by Padraic Meehan in 2005 as part of an archive of interviews with professional musicians living in Sligo-Leitrim.

The DVD is 34 minutes and is available on loan from the Arts Education Office, 0719147304.

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As an island nation, Irish people have a special relationship with the sea. This visual no comment created by Alan Reevell shows a living sea with its vibrant coast shot on location in Sligo. A beautifully orchestrated piece of music by Stephen Severin completes the ambience.

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These interviews were done from August through November every ten days in Sligo Leitrim. Both the interviewers, and the persons interviewed are resident in this area. Because of the extraordinary economic and financial conditions of Ireland at this time, the concerns and feelings of adults with regard to the economy were explored in contrast to their cultural life, as related to the arts. The arts are described in Ireland specifically, for example as literature, music, theatre, visual arts, dance, cinema, mixed media, architecture, and opera. Understanding, appreciation, or practice of the arts were the basis for accounts given, although at times the interviews encompassed wider cultural aspects of life in this corner of the island. The episodes are sequential, and a number of persons feature consistently.

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A journey through Sligo-Leitrim and surrounds examining sites of religious and spiritual significance, with interviews with diverse persons of distinct sensibility.

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Selected from over 50 interviews recorded in 2004, this production portrays the diversity, individuality, humanity and sophistication of a random group of men living in counties Sligo or Leitrim. Recorded in digital video in exterior locations as a project to research the cultural sensibility of adult males in this northwest corner of Ireland, the interviews selected demonstrate the distinct cultural experience of each person, and the increasingly diverse sources of current cultural activity and engagement. All contributors to this production are thanked for their cooperation and generosity.

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