Tom Cooper

Tom Cooper, a garage owner in Killarney, in County Kerry, also opens a cinema in the town and founds the Glebe Hotel; according to his family, he is the first to bring coachloads of visitors there. He is said to have been struck, as a child, by the passage of an American film company through the area before the First World War. He writes, produces, directs and acts in a film in the thirties, and the Cork Film Festival honours him at the end of the seventies. No dates are known for him.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe DawnTom Cooper · 1936Cinema