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film · Sunday 19 July 2026 · 6:00pm 
Barry Lyndon - 4K Restoration - 50th Anniversary - Triskel Cork
At Triskel Christchurch · Tobin Street, Cork City, Co. Cork
At Triskel Christchurch · Tobin Street, Cork City, Co. Cork
Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is one of those films that rewards a big screen the way almost nothing else does. Shot in 1975 using specially adapted NASA lenses to capture genuine candlelight, it looks unlike any other film ever made - a painting in motion, every frame composed as if it belonged in a European gallery. This summer, to mark the film’s 50th anniversary, a new 4K restoration sourced from the original 35mm camera negative is returning to Irish cinemas, and Triskel Christchurch in Cork is screening it on Saturday 19 July 2026. If you have never seen it projected, this is the reason to go. If you have, you will want to see it again this way.
Ryan O’Neal plays Redmond Barry, an Irish rogue who flees Ireland after a duel, drifts through wars and courts across 18th-century Europe, reinvents himself as a gambler and soldier, and eventually marries his way into the English aristocracy - before losing everything. Thackeray’s novel gave Kubrick a canvas for something extraordinary: a three-hour costume drama that is also a meditation on ambition, luck, and the way wealth can hollow a person out.
The 4K restoration - debuted at Cannes in 2025 as part of the Cannes Classics strand - is exceptionally faithful, drawn from the original camera negative rather than any intermediate copy. The film runs 185 minutes and includes a 10-minute intermission, which is welcome and in keeping with how it was originally presented. The screening comes with new marketing materials and an exclusive video introduction from Katharina Kubrick.
Part of the film was shot on location in Ireland, so there is a particular pleasure in watching it here. The landscapes Kubrick chose - soft, green, overcast - are unmistakably familiar.
Triskel Christchurch sits on Tobin Street in Cork City centre, a few minutes’ walk from Patrick Street and the South Mall. The venue is easy to reach on foot from the city’s main bus stops and from Kent Station, which connects Cork to Dublin, Limerick, and Mallow. If you are driving, there are several multi-storey car parks nearby on Lavitt’s Quay and Jurys Quay, and on-street parking is available on the South Mall outside evening peak times. Cork is well served by Bus Eireann intercity routes from most major towns in Munster.
Cork City is worth time before or after a long film. The English Market is close by for food, and the area around Tobin Street has several good cafes and bars for the intermission crowd. There is more to see in Cork and across Co. Cork.
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