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Niamh Galligan 

BA [Hons] New Media Studies

My name is Niamh and I am a media student. I love critically analysing films, music, art and literature. I am very passionate about questioning the world around me through academic work such as essays and visual presentations. I also love working with other creative people and gaining new perspectives and skills in the process.

As part of the Media Production module photojournalism CA I decided to focus on nature photography. These photographs represent the vertical lines we see in nature, be it manmade or natural.
This is my short documentary (created for the Media Production module) on Kilmacurragh House and the Acton family. I decided to focus on Kilmacurragh House as this house and its story fell under the documentary theme of 'Who Lived Here'. The documentary tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel William Acton and how he used his influential position in Irish society to provide food and aid to the people of Wicklow during the Famine. The story of the Acton family also focuses on British colonialism and its legacy in the county of Wicklow.
My Final Year Project video edit (alongside my critical essay) questioned whether Douglas Sirk's 1950s Hollywood melodramatic films All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Imitation of Life (1959) subverted misogynistic attitudes in post-war American society. In my video edit I critically analysed these films and researched the reaction 1970s feminist film critics had towards Sirk's films.
My Final Year Project critical essay and my Journalism written piece.

For my Final Year Project I focused on the 1950s melodramatic films of Douglas Sirk and how women were represented in his films. I questioned whether his films All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Imitation of Life (1959) subverted misogynistic attitudes in post-war American society.
I have also added an attachment of my Journalism CA - a written piece about how the pandemic impacted Irish healthcare students.


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