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Year

Name of Film

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2008

Vox Humana

AWARDS:
Directors Choice (Boston Irish Film festival).
Best Original Approach (Skopje Music on Film Festival)
Audience Award (Galway Film Fleadh)

 

The Atlantean Quartet

 
1981/84

The Atlantean Trilogy
The seminal documentaries on Ireland's maritime relationship with the Orient.
Jacob's TV & Film Award
(Colour, 3 x 50 mins)

Plus:

1998 Atlantean 2: Navigatio
Completing the Circle. Via the Baltic and the Russian rivers, the musical connection between the Irish and the Tatars. Also, how Charlemagne would not have existed without Arab silver.
( Colour, 50 mins)

Atlantean

€29.50

1977

Poitín
Drama - The first feature film in the Irish language
Subtitled (Colour, 65 mins)

 

€29.50

1987

Budawanny
A 'silent movie'. Best actor award at Troia Festival.
Drama (Colour / B & W, 80 mins)

Plus:

'The Island' - documentary shot on Clare Island 1996

Budawanny

€29.50

2006

ConTempo Goes West
Music documentary on the ConTempo String Quartet and their impact as Galway's Ensemble-in-Residence, 2003-2006

€29.50

2002

Damhsa an Deoraí
(The Emigrant Dance)
Story of the Galtymore Ballroom, London. With Seosamh Ó Cuaig.
(Gael Media, Colour, subtitled, 50 mins)

 €29.50

2000

Splanc Deiridh na Gaeltachta
(The Last Spark of the Gaeltacht) History of the Civil Rights movement in Galway, with Donncha Ó h-Éallaithe
(Gael Media, Subtitled, 50 mins)

€29.50

1999

'It Must Be Done Right'
Documentary Donal McCann - 'the world's greatest actor (Newsweek)' . His last public performance. Prod. De Facto films
(Colour, 50 mins)

 

€29.50

1997

Graceville
The 'Connemaras' in Minnesota. With Seosamh Ó Cuaig
(Gael Media, Colour, 50 mins)

€29.50

1992

Pobal in Deutschland
Conamara emigrants in Germany
(Gael Media, 6 * ½ hour)

 

€29.50

1990

Pobal in Boston
Conamara emigrants in the USA.
(Gael Media, 6 * ½ hour)

€29.50

1987

Pobal in London
Conamara emigrants in London
(Gael Media, 6 * ½ hour)

€29.50

1975

Lament for Artur O Leary
(Caoineadh Áirt Uí Laoire)
Drama (Colour, 56 mins)

 
1976

Self Portrait With Red Car
Experimental, with artist Brian Bourke
A 'car'toon
(Colour, 25 mins)

 
1980

Lillipup
Experimental, with painter Brian Bourke
( Colour, 20 mins)

 
1978

Listen
Experimental, with composer Roger Doyle
( Colour, 27 mins)

 
1981

Last Days of the Gaeltacht
With Desmond Fennell.
Spirit of the Festival award. Celtic Film Festival
(27 mins)

 
1979

The Family
Documentary on the 'Screamers' in Donegal. RTE locked the film in a drawer and refused to show it for 14 years.
(Colour, 27 mins)

 
1979

Hooker Music
A series of six traditional music documentaries shot on board a Galway sailing boat - the Hucaer or Bád Mór. Features De Danann, Stockton's Wing, Mary Bergin..
 

 

Miscellaneous Documentaries

 

The Master Musicians of Jajouka
Film Portraits of Josie McDonncha, Flann O Riain, Edward Delaney, RHA., Peadar Lamb, Pearse Hutchinson, Tony MacMahon, Na h-Ancairí.

The Isle of Man
A Jehovah in Galway
A Film Board for Ireland

(with National Film Board of Canada)
Vet on the Rocks
Turf Boats of Kinvar;
An Bealach Eile (Immigrants to Conamara)
Fág an Bealach (Coláiste na bhFiann);
Oireachtas na nGael
 

 

Numerous documentaries for RTE TV including:

 

Why Don't They Shoot People
(Berlin Internation festival, Prix Italia, 1966)

The Island

Missing, Believed Dead

Inside the Outsider

The Flowerpot Society

Shadowy Horses

Silent World

Puck Fair

Many Hands Make Life Work

 
'The Atlantean Quartet', 'Poitín' and 'Budawanny' are available on DVD from this site.
 
 
A photo archive of old & new Irish images
Click to see the images
 
 
 

Book & film trilogy
The historic connection between Ireland & the Orient