Stanley Holloway, who played the Irish priest, was a member of the notorious Black and Tans a paramilitary force of police auxiliaries who terrorised the Irish population during the war of independence 10 years previously.
This film received its earliest documented USA telecasts in Los Angeles Wednesday 18 January 1950 on KECA (Channel 7) and in New York City Saturday 7 October 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11).
The film's opening credits list the title as Lily of Killarney with an added A Musical and Dramatic Romance of the Emerald Isle -.