Some Mother’s Son (1996)

The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.

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River Queen (2006)

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irishwoman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.

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Rocky Road to Dublin (1968)

In 1968, Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon conducted a series of ‘innocent’ interviews with politicians, clergy and ordinary people of the day which exposed the truth of a repressed, suppressed and censored country; and the hypocrisy of church, politics and state. The resulting documentary is a provocative, biting portrayal of 1960s Ireland.

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Love & Friendship (2016)

Lady Susan Vernon leaves 1790s London to take up temporary residence at her in-laws’ Irish estate; and while there is determined to find a suitable husband for her daughter Frederica; and maybe for herself also.

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Wolfwalkers (2020)

A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.

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The Secret Scripture (2016)

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

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The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

While serving with a UN peacekeeping force in the Congo in 1961, Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan and his platoon are forced into a stand-off against French and Belgian Mercenaries fighting for the breakaway Republic of Katanga.

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Jimmy’s Hall (2014)

During the Great Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.

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Nora (2001)

In June 1904, James Joyce courts Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently arrived from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long they elope to locations across Europe.

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Michael Collins (1996)

A historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.

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