Brendan Gleeson
Author
Series
Easter 1916 volume 6
Language
English
Description
1916 The Easter Rising is a major 7 part historical documentary series telling the stories behind the 7 signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation. Each episode tells the story of one of the signatories of the proclamation, starting with Tom Clarke, the father of the Rising, moving through James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas McDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt and Patrick Pearse.
Author
Series
Easter 1916 volume 3
Language
English
Description
1916 The Easter Rising is a major 7 part historical documentary series telling the stories behind the 7 signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation. Each episode tells the story of one of the signatories of the proclamation, starting with Tom Clarke, the father of the Rising, moving through James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas McDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt and Patrick Pearse.
Author
Series
Easter 1916 volume 7
Language
English
Description
1916 The Easter Rising is a major 7 part historical documentary series telling the stories behind the 7 signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation. Each episode tells the story of one of the signatories of the proclamation, starting with Tom Clarke, the father of the Rising, moving through James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas McDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt and Patrick Pearse.
Author
Series
Easter 1916 volume 1
Language
English
Description
1916 The Easter Rising is a major 7 part historical documentary series telling the stories behind the 7 signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation. Each episode tells the story of one of the signatories of the proclamation, starting with Tom Clarke, the father of the Rising, moving through James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas McDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt and Patrick Pearse.
Author
Series
Easter 1916 volume 5
Language
English
Description
1916 The Easter Rising is a major 7 part historical documentary series telling the stories behind the 7 signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation. Each episode tells the story of one of the signatories of the proclamation, starting with Tom Clarke, the father of the Rising, moving through James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas McDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt and Patrick Pearse.
Author
Series
Easter 1916 volume 2
Language
English
Description
1916 The Easter Rising is a major 7 part historical documentary series telling the stories behind the 7 signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation. Each episode tells the story of one of the signatories of the proclamation, starting with Tom Clarke, the father of the Rising, moving through James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, Sean Mac Diarmada, Thomas McDonagh, Eamonn Ceannt and Patrick Pearse.
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven year old Mary has an insatiable passion for cooking, and dreams of become a great chef. Her grandmother Emer, with whom she has a very special relationship, encourages her to make this dream come true. But every path has its obstacles, and facing them turns into quite an adventure. In this delicate coming-of-age story, filled with joy and laughter, we join four generations of women as they head off on a glorious journey together. One that takes...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nocturnes: A Passage of Dreams is a play about grief and love. Their primal intimacy is its story.
Nocturnes thinks that what was painfully learned about love and grief in the early 20th century remains troublingly true. Julia Kristeva puts it well: "...the insolence of the Freudian discovery was to show this: there is no love but failed love". Here is to failed love. May we survive it, learn from it, and outlive it.
10) Song of the sea
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself.
11) The guard
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
12) Calvary
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Calvary's Father James is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral, and often comic, problems, he feels sinister and troubling forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.
13) Frankie
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over the course of a late summer's day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, Portugal, this film follows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the family matriarch. In this fairy tale setting, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, stirred by their romantic impulses, discover the cracks between them, as well as the unexpected depth of feeling.
14) Into the storm
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This sequel to the award-winning film The Gathering Storm offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, when Churchill was at his most commanding and effective. It shows how his prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage.
15) Live by night
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss...
16) The cup
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Damien Oliver is a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident that reflects the way their father died 27 years earlier. After a series of discouraging defeats Damien teams with Dermot Weld to win one of the most thrilling finales in sporting history. Based on a true story.
17) Assassin's creed
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.
19) Edge of tomorrow
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
20) Safe house
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tobin Frost, one of the CIA's most dangerous traitors, resurfaces in South Africa after eluding capture for almost a decade. During his interrogation, the safe house he's being held in is attacked by brutal mercenaries, forcing rookie agent Matt Weston to take the infamous Frost on the run. As the masterful manipulator toys with his reluctant protégé, shaking the young operative's morality and idealism, the unlikely allies must fight to stay alive...
