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Nora

Pat Murphy, 102 minutes, 2000

Continuing her work of investigating received history from a feminist perspective, director Pat Murphy here peels apart the mythologies surrounding famed writer James Joyce (Ewan McGregor) and gives a voice to his wife Nora Barnacle (Susan Lynch). Committed to this…

Noreen

Domhnall Gleeson, 18 minutes, 2010

Tapping into a contemporary trend of setting black comedies in rural Ireland Noreen has two incompetent Gardaí destroy a crime scene in this viciously dark short. Heartbroken by the loss of his girlfriend Noreen, rookie Frank (Brian Gleeson) is given…

Normáilte

Lukasz Simon, 9 minutes, 2024

Created as part of an Irish Queer Archive’s 2024 exhibition Normáilte explores the experience of growing up queer, linking to the growth of the LGBTQ+ movement in Ireland over the last 50 years.

North Circular

Luke McManus, 89 minutes, 2022

This musical odyssey traveling the length of Dublin’s North Circular Road, from the Phoenix Park to Dublin Port, explores the history, music and residents of this richly storied street. While exploring many dark narratives from the city’s history, from colonialism,…

Northern Star

Nora Dineen, 26 minutes, 2018

Sarah, a young writer, returns home to Ireland to face the challenges of what she ran away from.She attempts to see with mature eyes and to form a steady relationship amongst family drama surrounding her. When faced with a man…

Notes from Sheepland

Cara Holmes, 70 minutes, 2023

Notes from Sheepland bursts with candid observations of the lipstick-wearing, always swearing, no-nonsense artist and shepherd, Orla Barry. Through her fields, her digital diaries, and the pedigree sheep she cares for, we discover how the art is in the doing.…

Nothing Compares

Kathryn Ferguson, 67 minutes, 2022

At the peak of Sinéad O’Connor’s rise to worldwide fame her iconoclastic actions resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987-1993, the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer…

Nothing Personal

Urszula Antoniak, 85 minutes, 2009

The inimitable Stephen Rea offers one of his finest screen performances in Polish filmmaker Urszula Antoniak’s meditative two-hander, set amidst the wilds of Connemara. An enigmatic young Dutchwoman (Lotte Verbeek), lost in grief, abandons her worldly possessions to live rough…

Nothing Personal

Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 86 minutes, 1995

The violence that has plagued Northern Ireland throughout the twentieth century has proved an attractive topic for filmmakers and it is one turned to here by Thaddeus O’Sullivan in this hard-hitting film that depicts would-be political fighters as gangland criminals.…

Nymph

Caoimhin Coffey, 15 minutes, 2020

When betrayal stalks their camping trip, three friends unwittingly conjure up the wild, elemental spirits of vengeful Nature, with horrifying consequences.

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