Shot on a low budget, “Arracht” nevertheless gained keen attention on the festival circuit and was Ireland’s submission to the Academy Awards in 2021
wrong to say that Irish people do not commemorate the Great Famine. Since Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom a century ago, generations of schoolchildren have learned that, between 1845 and 1855, the island’s population fell by perhaps a third after a million people died of starvation and disease, and perhaps twice as many were forced to emigrate.
Despite that, for the places and communities that were most acutely affected, the sheer ghastliness of what happened has remained to some extent a private memory, passed down in the intimate lore of families who felt the details were too grim to be shared with outsiders.
The story of an individual caught up in the wider tragedy, “Arracht” is more solemn and slow-moving by comparison. The intense, brooding hero is a farmer and fisherman called Colman Sharkey, who protests to his Anglo-Irish landlord about rising rates and warns that half the local community may die within months. After a shootout at the landlord’s house—for which he is wrongly blamed—Colman is forced to flee and takes refuge in a cave.
But its most haunting feature is not any one character but the numinous and beautifully filmed landscape of Ireland’s west coast, materially the poorest but perhaps culturally the richest part of the island. Travelling anywhere along that coastline brings a sense that an entire Gaelic world came within a hair’s breadth of total annihilation but somehow survived, at least in parts. The governments of independent Ireland carefully tended to the fragments that remained.
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