Keep It A Secret | Trailer
Preview: Season 6 Episode 1 | 1m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
The inspiring story of Irish surfing and how its pioneers found peace during The Troubles.
In 1972, every international sporting event in Ireland was cancelled...except for one. Surf pioneers transcended The Troubles' hostilities to host the '72 Eurosurf Championship. The film recounts the inspiring story of the dawn of Irish surfing, revealing how the sport gave young people hope while forever changing their lives, and how their community would leave a lasting impression upon Ireland.
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.
Keep It A Secret | Trailer
Preview: Season 6 Episode 1 | 1m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
In 1972, every international sporting event in Ireland was cancelled...except for one. Surf pioneers transcended The Troubles' hostilities to host the '72 Eurosurf Championship. The film recounts the inspiring story of the dawn of Irish surfing, revealing how the sport gave young people hope while forever changing their lives, and how their community would leave a lasting impression upon Ireland.
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- [Sean] For as long as I can remember, I've been obsessed with the ocean and riding waves.
- [Andia] All that surfers crave are big waves and small crowds.
- [Kevin N.] How many days I showed up at Bundoran which is in my mind, it was a wave as good as any wave that surfed anywhere in the world.
If there was somebody there, I was gonna know who they were and we were gonna share waves together.
- [Andia] They found both in Ireland.
- [Sean] The ultimate secret spot.
- They didn't even know that there was such fabulous waves in Ireland.
- This sense freedom like the world's your oyster.
- [Kevin N.] Back then, once you met one or two of the Irish surfers, you were introduced into the whole surfing community, which was very small.
- [Andia] These were the years of violence, The Troubles in Ireland.
(explosion banging) - [Davy] And then seeing the ambulance started to arrive and I started realize that that bomb was actually in that building that I had just come out off.
- [Andia] But the surfers built a community across religious and political divide.
- The surfers in Ireland then, they didn't put up with any of this nonsense about north and south, Catholic and Protestant.
The only distinction drawn was in the water and how well you surfed and we were all just surfers.
- [Kevin C.] I wanted the world to know that Ireland was a surfing nation.
We actually had waves as good as anybody else.
- Surfing is best kept to a small community.
These are our waves.
This is my beach.
- [Andia] Should they tell the world or "Keep It A Secret," on Doc World.
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Keep It A Secret | Discovering Ireland's Waves
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Surfing pioneer Kevin Naughton recounts the first time he discovered Ireland's waves. (56s)
Keep It A Secret | Eurosurf 1972
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In 1972, Ireland was the host of the Eurosurf Championship in the midst of The Troubles. (58s)
Keep It A Secret | Irish Surfing Pioneers
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From Belfast to Dublin, meet Ireland's pioneers of surf like Kevin Cavey and Davy Govan. (55s)
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The inspiring story of Irish surfing and how its pioneers found peace during The Troubles. (30s)
Keep It A Secret | The Inspiration Behind the Film
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Filmmaker Sean Duggan reveals who and what influenced him to make the documentary. (25s)
Keep It A Secret | "The Troubles" of Ireland
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The beginnings of The Troubles conflict in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. (59s)
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