Movies

The film follows Connemara emigrants in London who make a living fly-tipping. In the 1980s as Thatcher's entrepreneurial friends were demolishing...

A precursor to Reefer and the Model, Waterbag involves the relationship between two fishermen and a pregnant woman, and ends with an apparently...

Bob Quinn’s seminal documentary, deemed too disturbing for television viewers and not broadcast until 10 years after its completion, reveals...

Cinegael is an independent cinema set up by filmmaker Bob Quinn in the 1970's, in which his son, the director Robert Quinn, lived as a child. The...

Bob Quinn's 'Bog Graffiti' explores the relationship between humankind and nature, addressing the issue of climate change. Bob Quinn said: 'To...

Budawanny was filmed on location on Clare Island, Co. Mayo. Exactly twenty years before, Bob Quinn had made a half-hour documentary on the daily...

During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down. Remade as "The Bishop's...

Documentary about the Irish, dispelling the myth that they are all of pure Celtic heritage, but showing them as the mix of races they really are, and...

A poitín (moonshine) maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí (police) in Connemara in the west of Ireland.

Inspired by Cliodhna Cussen, Cloch is an evocation of the art of stone-carving, drawing on the work of James McKenna and on the Kilkenny sculpture...

Before the term was familiar in Ireland, Joe MacAnthony was an 'investigative reporter'. As early as 1974 he was revealing the corruption in the...

During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down.

A group of unruly Irish stage actors refuse the orders of their British director as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of Eibhlín Dubh...

Composer Roger Doyle is inspired by sounds from our environment to create new rhythms. Creating a musical soundscape Doyle uses the sounds around us...

Last Spark Of The Gaeltacht (Laetha Deiridh na Gaeltachta) is a documentary programme about the Civil Rights Movement in the Gaeltacht which was...

This documentary traces the emigration of 50 Irish families, mostly from Connemara, who were transported to Minnesota in 1880 in a misguided attempt...

A documentary on a sean-nós singing seminar that took place in An Spidéal in Conamara. Filmed in 1981 by Bob Quinn for RTÉ's...

Bob Quinn's 1981 film on the decline of the Gaeltacht, written and presented by Desmond Fennell.

An artist attempts to draw but has difficulty reconciling what he sees with what he hears.

Luke is an alcoholic and a petty thief. Once a talented drummer, he is now busking on litter bins and strumming Rossini on his teeth. Estranged from...