From the novel 'Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry' by Rosalie K Fry.
Another film about foreign cultures, folklore and myth, the sea and its inhabitants. Here, seals are most important.
A young girl is sent to her grandparents on the west coast of Ireland. They previously lived in faraway glimpsed Roan Inish but it's now uninhabited... or is it? She Jeni Courtney and cousin Richard Sheridan restore the dwellings to their former glory much to the surprise of grandparents Mick Lally and Eileen Colgan. John Lynch as another cousin is familiar from things such as Cal and The Secret Garden; sister Susan Lynch from Waking Ned, Cracker, plays the selkie.
Haskell Wexler's images and the traditional Irish songs are important factors. It's almost magic.
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