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Brendan Gleeson’s documentary about legendary Irish pub is airing on TV
Published 12:22 10 Dec 2024 GMT
Updated 09:35 29 Jul 2025 BST
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The film had its world premiere earlier this year.
A documentary about a legendary Irish pub produced by and starring Oscar-nominated Irish actor Brendan Gleeson will be airing on TV later this month.
Titled Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s, the film coming to TG4 soon is about Hughes's - the bar that was located behind the Four Courts in Smithfield, Dublin.
For decades, the venue served as a hub for traditional music before it closed its doors in 2021.
The documentary details how, in January 2022, Gleeson - who is a fiddle player and was a Hughes's regular - met with musicians, dancers and singers in and around the pub and gathered them one last time to "recreate the magic of Hughes’s".
The plot synopsis for the documentary states:
Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s had its world premiere last March as part of the Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF).
And it has just been announced that the documentary will also be airing on TG4 and TG4.ie on Sunday, 29 December at 8.30pm.
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