Borstal Boy (2000)
Irish teenage political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory school) by a liberal warden.
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.
Nora (2001)
Ewan McGregor portrays Irish author James Joyce in his elopement across Europe in the 1900s with the uninhibited Nora Barnacle.
Jimmy’s Hall (2014)
A man returns home to Ireland in the 1930s and tries to re-open the local dancehall to help alleviate poverty during the depression.
The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
An Irish United Nations peacekeeping platoon are caught in a battle between mercenaries during the Congo conflict of the early 1960s.
The Secret Scripture (2016)
The diary of an psychiatric patient reveals the history of her life and the religious and political upheavals in Ireland of her youth.
Wolfwalkers (2020)
An apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack, but she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe.
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.
Rocky Road to Dublin (1968)
A series of 1968 interviews with priests, politicians and prominent Irish people giving an insight into the prevailing culture at the time.
River Queen (2006)
A young Irishwoman and her family find themselves on both sides of the Maori wars during the British colonization of New Zealand.