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Bloody Sunday

Paul Greengrass, 107 minutes, 2002

Directed by Paul Greengrass, this highly regarded reconstruction of the events of Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972), when British paratroopers fired on civil rights marchers, was produced by Jim Sheridan under his production company Hell’s Kitchen. Made to commemorate the…

Bloom

Sean Walsh, 113 minutes, 2003

A vivid adaptation of Joyce’s celebrated Ulysses, Bloom is a rich costume drama about Leopold Bloom (Stephen Rea), his ribald wife, Molly (Angeline Ball), and the young intellectual Stephen Dedalus (Hugh O’Conor) going about their daily business. In a bold…

Bloomsday – Ljubliana, Slovenia

Sean Walsh, 113 minutes, 2003

June 16th  The Slovenska Kinoteka / Slovenian Cinematheque celebrates Bloomsday with a screening of John Huston's The Dead on the 16th June.                

Bloomsday Festival, Embassy of Ireland – Budapest, Hungary

Sean Walsh, 113 minutes, 2003

June 16th, 20th In Hungary there is a literary link in the city of Szombathely (Leopold Bloom’s father’s fictional birthplace in Ulysses) and Bloomsday events centre around a statue of Joyce on 16th June there every year. This week long, Embassy-initiated festival…

Blue Rinse

Matt Leigh, 11 minutes, 2010

A celebration of daily life, Blue Rinse records a single day at a hair salon and the conversations between hair-dressers and customers. Their honest and open attitudes shine through in a documentary short made with a keen sense of the…

Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story

Sinéad O'Shea, 100 minutes, 2024

In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her…

Blurred Lines

Mark Agar, 86 minutes, 2024

When six friends get together for New Year's eve and a drink gets spiked, secrets and conflicts reveal themselves begging the question, who is really responsible? Who has consented? Focussing on the modern day stigmas of consent, stereotypes, inner turmoil,…

The Boat

Luke Morgan, 15 minutes, 2023

When Dhuckia grows up, she wants to be a boat builder like her father. But when he finds out that she is showing the early symptoms of leprosy, he must make a terrible choice.

Bobby Sands: 66 Days

Brendan J. Byrne, 105 minutes, 2016

This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening. In the spring of 1981 Bobby Sands, a Republican prisoner in Belfast’s H-Block, began a sixty-six day hunger strike which drew the attention of the world to his…

Bog Graffiti

Bob Quinn, 2019

If you think climate change is a joke, you are the joke.

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