Home Is Where The Heart Is

Harp television advertisement 'North America' from the 'Home is where the Harp is' campaign in which an Irishman writes a letter home about his travels in North America. Colour advert opens with two men sitting at a bar with a Harp mount, one man holding a letter. The letter is seen in close-up as a voiceover reads the words. The writer is an Irish emigrant. Dissolve to a bustling city at night, as two men enter a pub and watch a folk musician play guitar. They later share a drink with the musician and his girlfriend. A tankard is filled with lager from a tap as the voiceover concludes ‘That’s what I miss most about home – the pint of Harp.’ The reader of the letter is handed a tankard of Harp and smiles in close-up before he takes a drink, with caption ‘Home is where the Harp is’. Credits: Ocean Films

Harp television advertisement 'Sally O'Brien' from the 'Home is where the Harp is' campaign in which an Irishman writes a letter home about what he misses in Ireland. Colour advert opens with panning shot along sand dunes. Dissolve to the inside of a tent, where a man sits writing a letter as oil refinery workers work in the background. close-up of the man’s face and the letter he is writing, as a voiceover reads the words, ‘What I miss about home is the rain, the greenness and the pint of Harp.’ Dissolve to green fields with a farmhouse in the distance. Dissolve to a Harp bar mount. Different shots of people in a pub interspersed with a tankard being filled from a Harp tap. A woman looks to camera and smiles, as the voiceover adds, ‘…and Sally O’Brien and the way she might look at you…’ Dissolve back to the letter-writer as he sweats in the golden glow of the sun and thinks, ‘…you could fry an egg on the stones, if you had an egg, and you could certainly sink a pint of Harp, if you had a pint of Harp.’ He looks towards the sun, with caption ‘Home is where the Harp is’. Credits: Talent: Vicki Michelle. Gerry Poulson Associates, Ocean Films 13 October 1981 Director - John Devis Writer - Frank Sheerin Filmed at the Harbour Bar, Bray, and Ardmore Studios Advert awarded Irish Grand Prix at the 19th annual Irish Advertising Awards Festival, 1981