Aughty

“Aughty” is a feature length documentary by visual artists and filmmakers Tom Flanagan and Megs Morley.

Filmed over a period of 18 months , “ Aughty” is a documentary portrait of a unique place and people untouched by the boom and bust motions of the Irish 'Celtic Tiger', capturing a moment in time through the ordinary lives and traditions of Irish people in community, culture and resistance. In a landscape and population that is changing rapidly, where local schools are closing, turf cutting has been outlawed and environmental issues are pressing, the film observes and explores the daily lives and issues facing these small rural communities in the face of an ever-changing landscape.
Set against the stark and beautiful landscape of the Sliabh Aughty mountains in the west of Ireland, Aughty leads us on an intimate and poetic journey into rural Ireland capturing the complex relationship between the place, the landscape and the people at a pinnacle moment in rural society.