Luck 2011
Liam is desperate to get to the big game on the Aran Islands and savour the atmosphere of a local GAA grudge match. With his two friends Mícheál and Séamus in tow, they set out to try and find a way to get to the match.
Liam is desperate to get to the big game on the Aran Islands and savour the atmosphere of a local GAA grudge match. With his two friends Mícheál and Séamus in tow, they set out to try and find a way to get to the match.
An animated music video for a traditional Irish song, and created in collaboration with Cartoon Saloon, Aonach Bhearna Na Gaoithe tells the story of two woodland creatures who get drawn to the magical heartbeat within their forest.
Based on true events. Unfortunate circumstances prompt a young woman to recount her story, from her birth at a mother and baby home to a life spent wondering about her lost family.
A group of students have their Irish oral exams, which are being graded by an incompetent teacher
Parody celebrating twenty-one years of the iconic film 'Mean Girls'.
A young businessman retires to a quiet, picturesque village - but it doesn't stay quiet for long.
On the evening of 21 November 1974, the Provisional Irish Republic of Army carried out a terrorist attack in Birmingham (UK). It was recognised as the bloodiest attack in the Troubles England. This short film tells the “behind the scenes” of this attack, which hides a series of mistakes, delays and frictions within the same terrorist cell responsible for it.
An Irish language short film, Aqua tells the tale of Nick and Laura, an enterprising young couple, who plan to record the sounds of Irish rivers and sell them to the Irish-American market claiming it has soothing powers. Directed by Edel O’Brien, this film looks at the flipside of Celtic Tiger Ireland when greed was good and at the tragedies that could happen when cultural links were broken. (Taken from IFI website)
A young man and his elderly father are terrorised by a mysterious black dog in Connemara in 1910.
Fiadh, an overworked student, begins to make sacrifices to a demon to save her failing grade in Irish class.
A man living in the rural west of Ireland builds the means to escape the pains of his existence.
Things do not go according to plan when a mother tries to reconnect with her daughter after experiencing a mental breakdown.
A lonely, struggling Leaving Cert student reminisces on the time he spent in the Gaeltacht through videos taken on his camcorder. When given an opportunity to change his fortunes, will he take it?
Celebrated as one of the masters of the short story, Frank O'Connor was also an important translator of classical Irish poetry. Cork poet and writer Liam O'Muirthile tells O'Connor's forgotten story. He argues you cannot understand O'Connor's voice in English without understanding his natural writing voice, which is rooted in Irish.
Documents the period 1919-1922 in Ireland's history, covering the war of independence against the British and the civil war that followed using archive footage from the time, including original newsreel footage.
A new insight into the Irish origins of Ice-hockey in Canada.
A student take on In Bruge's American Tourists scene As Gaeilge
‘William McKeown: Idir Neamh agus Talamh’ is a meditation on the work of Irish artist William McKeown (1962-2011), who developed a body of work that has had a radical and fundamental effect on our understanding of the age-old relationship of art to nature, steering our attention not to the distant sky but to the air around us, to the openness of nature, the feeling of our emergence into light and our proximity to the infinite.
This documentary tells the extraordinary story of George Best and his time with Cork Celtic on the 50th anniversary of his time in League of Ireland, featuring exclusive interviews and rare archive footage of Best in action in Cork.
Northern Lights tells the story of two grieving strangers whose worlds collide on a rainy night in Dublin. Revelations, confessions, secrets, and lies envelop this darkly humorous, intimate series of hope.
The documentary - featuring a combination of rarely seen archival footage, new segments filmed on location worldwide, and interviews with leading international experts - also uncovers the untold story of the central role Irish Americans played in the lead-up to the rebellion. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would wring a moral victory from the jaws of defeat and inspire countless freedom struggles throughout the world - from Ireland to India.
Belfast-set comedy series about best mates and colleagues, Catholic Tommy and protestant Dougy, who own and run the Safe And Sound garage.
The 3-part documentary series The Irish Civil War tells the epic and often challenging story of the origins, conflict and legacy of the civil war that took place in Ireland in 1922 and 1923. Narrated by Brendan Gleeson, produced in partnership with University College Cork by RTÉ Cork as part of the Decade of Centenary commemorations and based on UCC’s “mammoth and magnificent” Atlas of the Irish Revolution, this documentary series features extensive archive film footage, photographs and materials, interviews with leading academics, archive interviews with contemporary participants and witnesses, firsthand witness accounts read by actors, detailed and dynamic graphic maps based on those featured in the Atlas of the Irish Revolution, and stunning cinematography of the very locations where events took place.
Lucy Kennedy has found a way of interviewing the elusive celebrity where they are most comfortable - their own homes. She travels to her guests' houses and literally lives in their spare room, eats their breakfast and follow them around during their daily routine - all with a camera crew in tow. Over the course of 48 hours Lucy will leave no stone unturned with her quick wit, natural charm and complete lack of tact.
Set in rural Ireland of the 1930s, the story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
The stunning scenery of Ireland's west coast conceals a dark secret in 'North Sea Connection', in which Ciara must confront the dramatic consequences of her brother Aidan's decision to transport drugs at sea. Threatened by a cartel and with a Swedish police officer closing in, Ciara's plans lead her family into a new series of unpredictable and dangerous events.
Daniel and Alison meet in 1989 Sheffield and fall in love as teenagers before life takes them in different directions. They reconnect years later through shared musical memories, wondering if they're meant to be together.
Multiple award winning drama series written by Eugene O'Brien, produced by David Collins, Ed Guiney and Peter Norris, and directed by Declan Recks and Charlie McCarthy. Pure Mule is set in modern rural Ireland, in a midlands market town. Each of the six episodes of the original series (which first aired on RTE in 2005) focuses in on one particular character from Friday evening to Monday morning.
Set in Ireland in the year 3000, the crew are the only humans to live on earth in a 1000 years. Join Arrow, Starla and ARG as they navigate the chaos and dangers of life on Earth.
Car dealer Frank Mallon (Adam Fergus, Being Erica) is watching his life fall apart around him. His wife has left, his cars aren't selling, and his teenage daughter is out of control. Desperate for a solution, Frank devises a plan to fix his money problems while also getting revenge on the people who make his life miserable.
The political and personal life of Charlie Haughey during his time in office.
In an isolated village in the north west of Ireland, a murder investigation begins when Garda Barry Roche finds a body buried in the bog. In the most personal of cases, Garda Conall Ó Súilleabháin discovers it is his mother, Sabine, who has been missing for 15 years. Conall is forbidden from working on the case, but is drawn into the investigation by a determined young journalist Ciara-Kate, who is using her true-crime podcast to expose the village's deepest secrets. As they unravel the truth, they must confront a community bound by silence and its own moral codes.
Gangland crime drama set in small-town Ireland. Damien, a young MMA fighter with dreams of escaping his tough neighbourhood, is held back by his struggling family and his brother Wes's involvement with the local drug gang. On the eve of a big fight, a major drug deal goes wrong and Wes goes missing, events which drag Damien into a dangerous new world potentially fraught with violence and even murder.
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. A co-production with Time-Life Television Productions, the miniseries was first broadcast on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974 to 5 January 1975. It is the earliest BBC adaptation to exist in its entirety; the 1956 adaptation is completely lost, whilst only four of the 1966 adaptation's eight episodes are known to exist.
This series looks at the seven men who were killed in Kilmainham Jail as a result of the 1916 Easter Rising. The people of Ireland have forgotten these men. This is an ambitious series with high standards of information from history to educational to cultural. The seven men are Sean Heuston, Con Colbert, Willie Pearse, Major John McBride, Ned Daly, Michael Mallin and Michael O'Hanrahan.
Set in a struggling Irish language newspaper in Belfast, the series is built around the character of Rob Cullan. a journalist who has left a high flying job in an English newspaper under a cloud. He is persuaded to return to the community he grew up in by the wily newspaper proprietor Diarmuid Black to help rescue his ailing publication.
Ex-gangland boss Michael O'Connor, now happily settled in rural Ireland, is forced to go back to Manchester when his son Sean is found guilty of the murder of a gang member.
Navigating preschool life can be tricky! Lu the affectionate ladybird is used to getting her own way - but now, alongside her new classmates, she must learn what it means to be a good friend.
The events of the Easter Rising, told in the style contemporary news broadcasts and a series of dramatic reconstructions.