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Irish Folk Furniture

Tony Donoghue, 9 minutes, 2012

An animated documentary short, Irish Folk Furniture tells the stories behind old pieces of furniture scattered about Ireland and the homely ways of life that relied on them. Using stop-motion animation to depict cabinets, chairs, flour bins and other furniture…

The Irish Pub

Alex Fegan, 76 minutes, 2013

Director Alex Fegan’s documentary gives a sustained ovation to this most popular institution in Ireland. Roaming across the country Fegan has owners and patrons sing the praises of their pubs, hailing them as places of community and conversation where nobody…

The Irish Question

Alan Gilsenan, 93 minutes, 2024

A provocative meditation on the prospect of a united Ireland from Alan Gilsenan. With the possibility of a border poll becoming an increasing likelihood, do we really understand what that could mean for all those living on the island of…

The Irish Riviera

Alan Gilsenan, 15 minutes, 1936

This early example of a state-sponsored promotional film made to entice visitors to the sunny south coast briefly visits Cork City and lingers at the remote outposts of Mizen Head, Garnish, the Blasket Islands (then inhabited), and Dunquin. As well…

The Irish Wedding

Alex Fegan, 75 minutes, 2021

Celebrating the joys of an Irish Wedding in all its pleasant predictability - the requisite chats about the weather, the haggle over the beef or salmon, the losing of the  rings, the ditching of the heels, the intergenerational whirl around…

The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile

Philip Donnellan, 50 minutes, 1965

Directed by pioneering television documentarian Philip Donnellan, this social-realist documentary about Irish workers in the UK proved too controversial to ever be screened on British television. It is not surprising why; employed to drive the crucial infrastructural projects which would…

The Iron Man

Shane Mulrennan, 50 minutes, 2024

Tony is your average, working class Irish hero who runs a door-to-door ironing service. When the perils of modern day competition come for him, does he have what it takes to overcome them?

The Island

Fionnuala Gygax,
Kate Gilmore, 16 minutes, 2024

After suffering a recent loss, a young mother brings her daughter on a trip to Inis Oírr. Set over three days in spring, this film explores the rebuilding of a fractured mother-daughter relationship.

It Came from Connemara!!

Brian Reddin, 60minutes, 2014

Enter the world of low-budget B-movie maestro Roger Corman, mentor of Coppola, Scorsese, Nicholson and De Niro and producer of over 350 films including, from his Irish stable, A Very Unlucky Leprechaun. This is the story of the film studio…

It Tolls for Thee

Andrew Gallimore, 74 minutes, 2017

Irishwoman Mary Elmes (1908-2002) is a remarkable unsung heroine who saved hundreds of children from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and from the concentration camps of World War II. In a film narrated by Winona Ryder, Andrew Gallimore pieces together the jigsaw of her…

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