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Unhinged

Tom Caulfield, 3 minutes, 2015

The squeaky hinge gets the oil. But when the squeak escapes the oil, it's sure to get you!

The names of the United Irishmen – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, William Drennan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and Mary Ann McCracken – have become the stuff of legend, but the reality of what they achieved is often forgotten. In their…

Unless

Alan Gilsenan, 90 minutes, 2016

Reta Winters (Catherine Keener) has many reasons to be happy: her three teenage daughters, her twenty‐year relationship with her husband, and her work as a successful translator and novelist. But suddenly, all the quiet satisfactions of her life disappear when…

Unlucky

Orlaith McManus, 15 minutes, 2020

A couple experience the pain, laughter and uncertainty of fertility treatment, whilst trying to hold their relationship (and beloved cat) alive.

Unquiet Graves

Seán Murray, 75 minutes, 2018

Unquiet Graves: The Story of the Glenanne Gang details how members of the RUC and UDR (a British Army regiment) were centrally involved in the murder of over 120 innocent civilians during the recent conflict in Ireland. It reveals how…

Untold Secrets

Teresa Lavina, 84 minutes, 2021

Untold Secrets voices the experiences of survivors of Ireland's Mother & Baby Homes, and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke, who was fostered out of the Bon Secours Mother & Baby Home in Tuam. A…

Up & Away

Jamie Goldrick, 16 minutes, 2020

Up & Away is a short documentary on the 1973 IRA Mountjoy Helicopter Escape, told through the eyes of four men who were in the prison that day.

Useless Dog

Ken Wardrop, 5 minutes, 2004

A sweet tale of an animal named ‘Guiness’ – the titular ‘useless dog’ – who is subject to farmer Trevor Wardrop’s complaints in this documentary short. Wardrop’s narrative proceeds over images of what he claims are Guiness’s cowardly, narcoleptic characteristics.…

The Van

Stephen Frears, 100 minutes, 1996

Following on from The Commitments and The Snapper, The Van is the third instalment of ‘The Barrytown Trilogy’ and offers another look into the tragi-comic, working class lives of Barrytown’s residents. Here it is unemployed middle-aged men Larry (Colm Meaney)…

The Vasectomy Doctor

Paul Webster, 11 minutes, 2019

Dr Andrew Rynne was the first doctor to perform vasectomies in Ireland, estimating that he has performed over 35,000. Persevering in the face of opposition from the Church and State in Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s, Dr Rynne continued…

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