Movies: Irish life

A lonely, simple-minded barman's fleeting encounter in a rural Irish pub, with a difficult customer highlights his need for intimacy....

An Blascaod Mór, Great Blasket Island, is an islet off the southwest coast of the Irish mainland. For years, a declining population and treacherous waters had made life there risky. In 1953, the Irish government evacuated the 22 remaining residents o...

In 1960 Frank Glynn, a west of Ireland shopkeeper, bought an 8mm film camera. He would go on to record the social history of his village and much more besides....

A modern Irish comedy western set in sleepy rural Sligo....

This documentary explores the intriguing symbiosis between Buckfast and Ireland's vibrant youth culture. Once solely available in pharmacies and revered as purely medicinal, Buckfast has evolved into a cultural phenomenon with each bottle revealing i...

Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to visit relatives in Ireland. Arriving in Dublin, he learns that he is an exact double for Lord Fitzhugh, a young Irish aristocrat with whom he becomes...

Small town teens Diana and Sol are graduating. Diana once dreaded this day, fearing a mundane future, but now has a plan for adventure among the stars with her best friend Sol. When doubt starts to set in, they have to decide whether to pursue their ...