Waves
Episode 10

The Death of Croppy Nelson

Owen Boss
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The Death of Croppy Nelson is a film response to Episode 10 of Ulysses, Wandering Rocks by Owen Boss. The work explores the pressures of national identity and contemporary life through three songs at 18 key locations along the Liffey, the central nerve of Dublin.

Performed by Alma Kelliher, the initial two songs feature in the Wandering Rocks episode of Ulysses. The first, an English Nationalist folk song, The Death of Nelson, is sung by a one legged sailor on Eccles Street. The second, The Croppy Boy, an Irish Nationalist folk song, comes to the mind of Tom Kernan as he encounters the place where Robert Emmet was executed.

The work situates the viewer in between these two apparently contradictory tunes. As these two songs come to a close the artist proposes a third alternative in response and as a potential replacement.


CREDITS

Created by Owen Boss

Produced by Lynnette Moran and Matt Smyth

Performed by Alma Kelliher

Music | Alma Kelliher

Costume Design | Mae Leahy

Director of Photography | Pato Cassinoni

Camera Assistant | Paul O'Byrne

Editor | Allen Kiely


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Events

Film
13 February – 20 February 2023
Wilton Park, Dublin

The Death of Croppy Nelson is a film response to Episode 10 of Ulysses, Wandering Rocks by Owen Boss. The work explores the pressures of national identity and contemporary life through three songs at 18 key locations along the Liffey, the central nerve of Dublin.

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