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Clouded Reveries

Ciara Nic Chormaic, 72 minutes, 2022

Clouded Reveries concerns the life and work of poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Ní Ghríofa was catapulted into the international literary spotlight in 2020 with the publication of her debut novel A Ghost in the Throat. Lauded by the…

Cluck

Michael Lavelle, 19 minutes, 2011

Boyhood camaraderie triumphs over clerical authority in this sweet-hearted short set in a 1950s orphanage. Young troublemaker Cowboy (Scott Graham) befriends the orphanage’s newest arrival, a bizarre young boy who believes he is a chicken and who earns himself the…

The Cocaine Famine

Sam McMullen, 13 minutes, 2018

The Cocaine Famine is an Irish black comedy about cocaine and the futility of nationalism.

Coda

Alan Holly, 9 minutes, 2013

A lost soul stumbles drunkenly through Dublin city. In a park, death finds him and shows him many things.

The Colleen Bawn

Sidney Olcott, 42 minutes, 1911

The Colleen Bawn is indicative of Kalem’s aspiration to aim its Irish subjects beyond an Irish-American audience and is highly ambitious in its conception. Like Rory O’More, the film is based on a 19th century literary source. Dion Boucicault’s 1860…

Colony

Carter Gunn, Ross McDonnell, 85 minutes, 2009

Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell’s documentary struck a chord with audiences across the globe, detailing a dire crisis facing the world’s beekeepers and its potentially catastrophic repercussions. Simply put, their bees are dying, and nobody can quite figure why: without…

Come Back to Erin

SIdney Olcott, 14 minutes, 1914

Sadly, only one reel of this three-reel film survives; recently discovered at the Museum of Modern Art. According to a contemporary synopsis, the story was another transatlantic emigrant tale, centering on a female character named Peggy O’Malley (Gene Gauntier), who…

Coming Home

Cathal Kenna, 84 minutes, 2016

The history of Ireland has been deeply affected by emigration, with almost 10 million people emigrating from the island of Ireland between 1800 and 2015. Charting the journeys of five Irish emigrants across four continents as they pursue a common…

Coming to Terms

Patrick Ketch, 9 minutes, 2019

After caring for her elderly father for years, Lisa is unable to deal with his passing and begins to see him everywhere.

The Commitments

Alan Parker, 118 minutes, 1991

Voted the best Irish film ever made in a poll sponsored by Jameson Whiskey in 2005, The Commitment’s charts the unlikely journey of Dublin soul band ‘The Commitments’. Ambitious Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) takes control of his friend’s struggling wedding…

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