Curtin

Curtin may refer to:

Curtin (2007 film)

Curtin is a telemovie about the wartime Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin.

Plot

The film covers the period from just before Curtin became Prime Minister until the return of the 6th and 7th Divisions to Australia at the start of the Pacific war.

Cast

Production

Much of the film was made in Victoria, with the exception of scenes filmed at Old Parliament House, Canberra. Locations included Victoria Barracks, Rippon Lea Estate and Point Cook air base. Library footage of the train was taken from A Steam Train Passes.

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Curtin (surname)

Curtin is a surname that comes from Ireland. Its form derives from the Irish language Mac Cruitín or O'Cruitin, anglicised as Curtin.

It is believed there were two families of Curtins originally, one in Co. Clare and another in Co. Cork. The first having a Dalcassian origin, and located in Corco Modhruadh (Corcomroe), were a distinguished learned family, serving as hereditary historians to the O’Briens of Thomond and other notable local families. Members of this family, such as Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín, continued to be Irish language scholars and poets down to the 19th century. The second family is referenced in a medieval Irish text, written before 1300, called Críchad an Chaoilli as Meic Coirtein o Baile Meig Coirtein & do mhuinntir Rathan iat sein (Trans: the Mac Curtains of Ballymaccurtain, of the Rahan people these are). They were hereditary proprietors in Fir Maige Féne (the barony of Fermoy), Co. Cork, with their seat at Rahan, a townland and Civil Parish near Mallow.