Where Do We Go From Here?

Two of Donnellan’s later works, a portrait of different travelling families across the UK and an Irish music documentary.

Where Do We Go From Here? follows a number of travelling families across Kent, Shropshire and up to a Yorkshire horse fair, and was made shortly after Donnellan and Parker helped to set up the West Midands Gypsy Liaison Group.

Towards the end of his BBC career most of Donnellan’s programme opportunities came through the Omnibus arts strand, including today’s second film - The Pilgrimage of Ti-Jean (1978), a documentary about French- Canadian fiddler Jean Carignan. As a child Carignan had taught himself the instrument by listening repeatedly to one fragile 78 record of Irish virtusoso Michael Coleman. Visiting Ireland for the first time in his sixties, Carignan goes to Coleman’s Sligo birthplace and mesmerises the local church hall with his playing.

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