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After The Dance: Q&A With Daisy AsquithAcclaimed filmmaker Daisy Asquith reveals the personal consequences of her Grandmother's 'fall from grace' after a local village dance in the west coast of Ireland during the 1940s.
Her grandmother, compelled to run away to have her baby in secret, handed the child over to ‘the nuns’. Daisy’s mum was eventually adopted by English Catholics from Stoke on Trent. Her grandmother returned to Ireland and told no-one. The father remained a mystery for another 60 years. Until Daisy and her mum decided it was time to find out who he was.
Their desperate need to know takes them on a fascinating and moving adventure in social and sexual morality and the fear and shame that Catholicism has wrought on the Irish psyche for centuries, and connecting them with a brand new family living an extraordinarily different life.