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Lipservice

Paul Mercier, 18 minutes, 1998

The “oral Irish”, a compulsory state exam in the Irish language is satirised in this short from Paul Mercier. Sean McGinley plays the examiner who encounters the exam’s absurdities, as he tests students whose talent in the language ranges from…

Listen to the Land Speak

Maurice O’Brien, 75 minutes, 2025

Based on his own book of the same name, Listen to the Land Speak sees Manchán Magan reveal the profound knowledge and wisdom contained in our landscape and myths. The film unfolds from Winter Solstice to Bealtaine through Reek Sunday…

Little Caesar

Amy Tierney, 7 minutes, 2025

A young lamb journeys towards acceptance and belonging in a world that values appearances over true character.

Little Old New York

Sidney Olcott, 110 minutes, 1923

A delightful emigrant comedy about a young Irish girl who comes to America disguised as a boy in order to claim a fortune left to her late brother. Marion Davies shines as Patricia O’Day masquerading impishly as a boy and…

Living Colour

Eamon Little, 80 minutes, 2011

A celebration of a unique community of artists, Living Colour concerns itself with the talents rather than the special needs of the people who attend the Kilkenny Centre for Arts Talent (KCAT). With art offering them a means of communication…

Living in a Coded Land

Pat Collins, 80 minutes, 2014

After making his first feature, the acclaimed Silence, director Pat Collins returned to the territory he made his name on with this mesmeric documentary, a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary…

The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos, 118 minutes, 2015

In the near future – or perhaps an alternate version of the present – those without a soulmate are dispatched to a grand hotel in the countryside where they have 40 days to rectify the situation by engaging in a…

The Lodgers

Brian O'Malley, 92 minutes, 2017

1920, rural Ireland. Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must…

LOLA

Andrew Legge, 80 minutes, 2022

England, 1941, sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. This delightful apparatus allows them to embrace their inner Bowie years before he was even born and place bets…

Lomax in Éirinn

Declan McGrath, 52 minutes, 2018

In 1951 American musicologist Alan Lomax travelled to Ireland and, guided by piper Séamus Ennis, began recording and collecting traditional Irish songs and music. Released as the album Ireland, and credited with the folk and traditional music revivals of the…

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