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Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Presents
Award-Winning Irish Documentary
All Our Yesterdays
Documentary Launches 2026 U.S. Tour in Pittsburgh
County Mayo filmmaker Breege Rowley travels to Pittsburgh for
two special Harris Theater screenings on October 1st and 3rd
(Pittsburgh, PA)— Multi-award-winning Irish documentary All Our Yesterdays will launch its 2026 U.S. tour in Pittsburgh this October, with two special screenings, on Thursday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 3 at 2:00 p.m., at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Director Breege Rowley will be travelling from Ireland to attend the Pittsburgh screenings. This event is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
The feature documentary, eleven years in the making, explores memory, emigration, family and the enduring connection between Ireland and its diaspora through an extraordinary collection of interviews, photographs, home movies and family archives gathered in County Mayo and from families overseas.
For tickets and information, visit Pittsburgh Cultural Trust official ticket sources: online at TrustArts.org; in person at Theater Square Box Office, 655 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222; or by calling guest services at 412-456-6666.
FROM COUNTY MAYO TO PITTSBURGH
While All Our Yesterdays is rooted in Swinford, County Mayo, the story reaches far beyond one Irish town.
Through the voices of those who stayed and those who left, the documentary explores a shared Irish experience — emigration, separation, resilience, community and the powerful attachment to home that can survive across generations and continents.
That story has resonance in Pittsburgh, a city shaped by generations of immigration and with a strong Irish-American community.
The Pittsburgh opening also has a special connection to the film itself: All Our Yesterdays is narrated by Pittsburgh-based Nora McBurney, creating a direct link between the city launching the American tour and the County Mayo community at the heart of the documentary.
“Beginning our American tour in Pittsburgh feels very special,” said director Breege Rowley. “All Our Yesterdays began with one community in County Mayo, but emigration carried its families and their stories across the world.”
“What has stayed with me throughout this journey is how strongly that connection to home survives. I have met people whose parents or grandparents left Ireland decades ago, yet those stories, memories and sense of belonging are still very much alive.
“Bringing the film to Irish-American audiences is, in many ways, bringing those stories back to the communities that inherited them. I’m really looking forward to being in Pittsburgh, meeting the audience and sharing the film with them.”
ELEVEN YEARS IN THE MAKING
The journey that became All Our Yesterdays began with old cine film and the realization of how easily irreplaceable pieces of community history can disappear. That moment became the catalyst for an eleven-year search to gather and preserve photographs, home movies, interviews and family archives before they were lost. Material emerged from families in Ireland and across the diaspora, reconnecting memories that had become scattered across generations and continents.
Together with first-hand interviews and an original musical score, these archives create a living portrait of rural Irish life and preserve the voices of people whose experiences might otherwise have disappeared from the historical record. What began as the story of a town in County Mayo ultimately became something much wider — a story about the people who remained, those who left, and the generations who continued to carry Ireland with them.
Produced by Breege Rowley, Director of Photography Richard Kendrick, Location Sound Mary Harkin, Drone Footage Jack Walsh, Music Composers Stephen Doherty, Alannah Thornburgh and Conor Walsh, Narrated by Nora McBurney, Executive Producers Nuala Cunningham and Jen Dunbar, Edited and Directed by Breege Rowley. Produced In Association with Mayo, North East Leader/Mayo County Council and Swinford Development LTD. More information & trailer: breegerowleyeditor.com/all-our-yesterdays
AN AWARD-WINNING INDEPENDENT IRISH DOCUMENTARY
Film Ireland described All Our Yesterdays as “a love letter to County Mayo.”
The independently produced documentary has received international recognition, including Best Documentary at the Boston Indie Film Festival, Outstanding Excellence at Docs Without Borders International Film Festival, and an Honorable Mention at the East Village New York Film Festival.
Following screenings in Ireland and its U.S. premiere in Chicago, where the film received a standing ovation, Pittsburgh will mark the beginning of the documentary’s 2026 U.S. tour, with additional American cities to be announced. All Our Yesterdays 2026 U.S. Cities Tour Schedule
ABOUT ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
All Our Yesterdays is a feature-length independent documentary directed by Irish filmmaker and editor Breege Rowley. Built from more than a decade of research, interviews, photographs, cine film and family archives, the documentary uses the story of a County Mayo community to explore themes shared by generations of Irish people around the world: emigration, identity, memory, family, community and belonging.
Video Clip: All Our Yesterdays
About Breege Rowley: Facebook
The Voices of a Town. The Story of a Nation.
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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is one of the nation’s premier arts presenters and a major catalytic influence in Pittsburgh, having overseen one of the city’s most historic transformations: turning a red-light district into a magnet destination for arts-lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Cultural Trust presents an array of quality performing and visual arts, provides comprehensive educational experiences, and stewards Pittsburgh’s Cultural District as a national model of economic revitalization through the arts. Lauded as “the single greatest creative force in Pittsburgh,” the Cultural Trust has worked to make Pittsburgh a place where the arts can flourish. The 14-block Cultural District, a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, has become a vibrant center for culture, art, food, and community in the city’s downtown neighborhood, providing a home for a broad range of performance groups and resident companies. Approximately one million people visit the Cultural District each year, generating more than $175M in economic impact for the region.
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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Harris Theater, located in the Cultural District, is one of the most active arts facilities in the region showing art films-contemporary, foreign, and classic- nearly every day of the year. As part of its mission to transform the Cultural District the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased and restored the facility leading to further conversions of run-down properties along the Liberty Avenue corridor. The 194-seat theater reopened to the public for movies and live performances on November 9, 1995. The Harris Theater was named through a gift from the Buhl Foundation after John P. Harris, co-founder of the Nickelodeon—the first theater solely dedicated to the showing of motion pictures—and a Pennsylvania State Senator.