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Lament for Barney Flanagan
Short Film (Full Length) – 1998
Barney Flanagan sprung like a frog, from a wet root in an Irish bog / May his soul escape from the tooth of the dog– Tim Balme recites lines from James K Baxter's poem Lament For Barney Flanagan
His body was escorted by his family back to Jerusalem. Hundreds of mourners attended a full Māori tangihanga. Following a requiem mass on 25 October, he was buried on tribal land. One year later a boulder inscribed ‘Hemi / James Keir Baxter / i whanau 1926 / i mate 1972’, was placed on his grave.– Writer Paul Millar describes James K Baxter's 1972 tangi, in a 2000 profile later republished on website Te Ara
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