"A personal description of a community which survived nearly seven hundred years of English occupation and then nearly sank under the weight of its own heroes and clergy" (P. Lennon). This signature look at life in the sixties in the Republic of Ireland did more than herald an indigenous Irish cinema, as distinct from the travelogue images produced at Ireland's Ardmore Studios; it gained international notoriety and was adapted by French students in the merry month of May '68 as a prototype for a challenging new cinema. Written and directed by an Irish journalist working in France, and shot by the great French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, the film takes as its starting point the 1916 Irish insurrection ("led by poets and socialists") and asks, "What do you do with your revolution once you've got it?" A look at class, Clergy, coitus, and culture-in Ireland, especially, an intertwined matrix.