Irish Film Institute -PODCAST: Seána Kerslake and Darren Thornton Q&A at Opening Night of A Date For Mad Mary

PODCAST: Seána Kerslake and Darren Thornton Q&A at Opening Night of A Date For Mad Mary

Listen back to Seána Kerslake and Darren Thornton Q&A at Opening Night of A Date For Mad Mary on Friday 2nd September 2016. Hosted by Eithne Shortall. A Date For Mad Mary is on release at the IFI from 2nd Sept. For times and… Read More

PODCAST: Q&A for Strange Occurrences in a small Irish village with Aoife Kelleher

Director Aoife Kelleher made her name as an Irish feature documentary maker with 2014 hit One Million Dubliners and has followed that success up with Strange Occurrences in a small Irish village. She joined us for a Q&A on the opening… Read More

Q&A with Seána Kerslake and Darren Thornton following the opening night screening of A Date for Mad Mary on Friday, Sept 2nd

IFI News: August 30th, 2016.

The Irish Film Institute will welcome director Darren Thornton and actress Seána Kerslake to the partake in a Q&A hosted by arts-writer and presenter Eithne Shortall following the opening night screening of their new film, A… Read More

Q&A with Seána Kerslake and Darren Thornton following the opening night screening of A Date for Mad Mary on Friday, Sept 2nd

IFI Press Release August 30th, 2016.

The IFI to welcome Darren Thornton and Seána Kerslake to the opening night screening of the winner of Best Irish Feature at Galway Film Fleadh, A Date for Mad Mary on Friday, September 2nd… Read More

IFI announces new 6-week Evening Course, Keeping it Real from Oct 4th – Nov 8th

IFI announces new six-week Evening Course, Keeping it Real from October 4th to November 8th.

Following September’s Documentary Film Festival at IFI, this Autumn’s Evening Course will focus on documentary; featuring a selection of key films in the genre and… Read More

IFI announces new 6-week Evening Course, Keeping it Real from Oct 4th – Nov 8th  

Press Release: September 25th, 2016

IFI announces new six-week Evening Course, Keeping it Real from October 4th to November 8th.

Following September’s Documentary Film Festival at IFI, this Autumn’s Evening Course will focus on documentary; featuring a selection of… Read More

PODCAST: Mark O’Halloran and Paddy Breathnach talk to Una Mullally at the IFI Opening Night screening of Viva

On Friday 19th August, 2016 we were joined by Viva director Paddy Breathnach and writer Mark O’Halloran to talk about the new Havana-set drama with journalist and writer Una Mullally of The Irish Times.  

Viva continues its run at the… Read More

PODCAST: Liam Cunningham Q&A after preview of The Childhood of a Leader

Listen back to Liam Cunningham discuss his latest film, The Childhood of a Leader at the IFI preview on 18 August 2016. The film is on release at the IFI from 19th August. Click here for times and tickets.

BLOG: Rex Ingram (Part 3 in a series on the Liam O’Leary Archive)

This is the third in a series of blogs by Joanne Carroll about the Liam O’Leary Archive, a collaborative cataloguing project between the Irish Film Institute and the National Library of Ireland. The project is due to be completed in… Read More


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