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The Secret of Kells is a 2009 animated fantasy drama film about the making of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript from the 9th century. The film is an Irish-French-Belgian co-production [ citation needed ] , led by the animation studio Cartoon Saloon , which premiered on 8 February 2009 at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival .
The lament begins, Do chonnac aisling are maidin an lar ghil ("I saw a vision on the morning of the bright day"). The vision was the goddess Erin bewailing the death of a man who had overthrown hundreds. [4] The first [5] of the aisling poets was Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, athair na haisling e ('father of the aisling').
In the 2009 animated movie The Secret of Kells, which is heavily inspired by Irish mythology, one of the supporting characters is a white cat named Pangur Bán who arrives in the company of a monk. A paraphrase of the poem in modern Irish is read out during the credits by actor and Irish speaker Mick Lally .
The initial idea for what would become “The Secret of Kells” was already there in 1999 when a collection of about 10 people working loosely under the Cartoon Saloon banner first set up shop in ...
Aisling, a hero in the video game Gigantic; Aisling in the novel Son of the Shadows; Aisling, aspiring film director in the play Stones in His Pockets; Aisling, a young faerie girl in the animated film The Secret of Kells; Aisling (character), the protagonist of the Aisling book series by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, Irish Book Awards ...
Cartoon Saloon is an Irish animation film, short film and television studio based in Kilkenny which provides film TV and short film services. The studio is best known for its animated feature films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner and Wolfwalkers.
Rooted in Celtic mythology and drawn to look like a moving stained glass window, 2009’s Oscar-nominated “The Secret of Kells” stood apart from its computer-generated 3D contemporaries for ...
Wolfwalkers is a 2020 independent [9] animated fantasy adventure film directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, [1] [10] [3] and is the third and final installment in Moore's "Irish Folklore Trilogy", following his previous films The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014). [11]