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Older than Ireland

Alex Fegan, 81 minutes, 2015

Featuring 30 men and women, all born before 1916, Older than Ireland is something of a landmark documentary that explores what it means to have lived 100 years, and more, in Ireland. Director Alex Fegan, who recently took the measure…

Omagh

Pete Travis, 106 minutes, 2004

On August 15th 1998 twenty-nine people were killed by a Real IRA bomb detonated in the streets of Omagh, Co Tyrone. This atrocity is here brought to the screen focussing on the efforts of Michael Gallagher (Gerard McSorley) in bringing…

On a Paving Stone Mounted

Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 96 minutes, 1978

Funded by the BFI’s film production fund, Paving Stone is O’Sullivan’s feature-length, mixed-mode experimental film. It tries to express the emigrant condition through the central dilemma of the function of memory. Its action moves back and forth between location sequences…

On Departure

Eoin Duffy, 6 minutes, 2012

Directed by Eoin Duffy, On Departure is a poignant and heartfelt animation which attempts to express a personal journey centred around the loss of the filmmaker’s younger brother. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

Once

John Carney, 85 minutes, 2006

A heartfelt and honest musical, Once sees struggling musician ‘Guy’ (Glen Hansard) and migrant worker ‘Girl’ (Marketa Irglová) fall in love through a shared passion for music. Meeting on the streets of Dublin as ‘Guy’ busks to try make ends meet, the…

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

David Gleeson, 90 minutes, 2026

A cinema in a small Irish town in the mid-80s is the setting for David Gleeson's (Cowboys & Angels) charming crowd-pleaser which follows weary manager Earl Clancy (Colin Morgan) as he struggles to stay afloat during one chaotic Friday night…

Once We Were Punks

Frank Shouldice, 96 minutes, 2025

1980s Bailieboro, Co Cavan, four school friends form a punk band and set their sights on world domination. When the big breakthrough never comes, careers, adulthood, and emigration intervene. But when they meet up at a funeral 25 years later…

Ondine

Neil Jordan, 106 minutes, 2009

Jordan’s most recent venture into Irish-themed films, Ondine adapts Celtic faerie lore to its own ends with this story of a ‘selkie’ who appears in the nets of Cork fisherman Syracuse (Colin Farrell). Believing the young woman, Ondine (Alicja Bachleda)…

One Hundred Mornings

Conor Horgan, 85 minutes, 2009

Turning the stripped-down necessities of low-budget filmmaking to his advantage, director Conor Horgan in his feature debut creates a minimalist but handsome post-apocalyptic drama unrelenting in its grim vision of people scrambling over one another to stay alive. Jonathan (Ciaran…

One Million Dubliners

Aoife Kelleher, 80 minutes, 2014

Never has journeying into the world of Ireland’s dead been as enlightening an experience as it is in One Million Dubliners, a fascinating exploration of Glasnevin Cemetery that was joint-winner of the Best Irish Feature Documentary award at this year’s…

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