IRISH STUDIES

B E S T S E L L E R S
SEX IN A
COLD CLIMATE
I CREATED DRACULA JAMES JOYCE

35-ASIDE

The most critically acclaimed short film ever made in Ireland, and winner of over forty international awards, this witty and visually imaginative comedy relates the childhood trials and tribulations of Philip, who is having a hard time at his new school.


ABORTION: STORIES FROM NORTH AND SOUTH

This cross-cultural survey shows how abortion transcends race, religion and social class, and how differences in the practice and perception of abortion are mainly in the degree of secrecy and danger accompanying it.


AN IRISH (AMERICAN) STORY

Mary Crehan Dillon, the filmmaker's 96-year-old Irish-American grandmother, who as a 17-year-old emigrated alone to the U.S. in 1911, reminisces about her early life in Ireland, her momentous decision to emigrate, and her new life in America.


BLOOMSDAY

Portrays the day-long Bloomsday celebration, when James Joyce devotees annually recreate and relive, through role-playing and readings, the famous odyssey of Leopold Bloom around Dublin on June 16th, 1904, as immortalized in Joyce's classic novel, Ulysses.


BOOKS IN THE BLOOD

This video tells the story of Des and Maureen Kenny, two young Irish university graduates, who in 1940 established a small bookshop in Galway, which has today become one of the most famous and beautiful bookstores in the world.


A CALL TO ARMS

A Call To Arms tells the extraordinary story of the Young Irelanders and the Uprising of 1848 in Ireland.1848 was a year when all of Europe was in turmoil and Ireland was no exception.


CELTIC WAVES: THE FLOW OF IRISH EMIGRATION

This documentary explores the effects of 150 years of emigration trends on the culture of Ireland.


DANCE LEXIE DANCE

This short drama, nominated for an Academy Award(r) in 1998 as Best Live-Action Short, tells the story of Laura, a 12-year-old Protestant girl who wants to be a Riverdancer when she grows up.


DAUGHTERS OF THE TROUBLES: BELFAST STORIES

This timely documentary offers first-person accounts of the lives of two working-class Belfast women told against the violent history of the last twenty-five years in Northern Ireland.


DOWN TO THE BEDROCK

This video chronicles the recently completed archaeological excavation in the Temple Bar area of Dublin, which produced evidence of the first Viking settlement established in A.D. 841, as well as a pre-Norman settlement confirmed to be the earliest origins of the city.


FAMINE SHIP

Filmed over a two-year period, this video traces the creation of sculptor John Behan's "Famine Ship," a large bronze sculpture commissioned by the Irish Government in 1997 to commemorate the famine of 1845-47.


FIVE POINTS

This video looks at New York in the 1850s as seen through the views of a native-born Protestant reformer and an immigrant Irish-Catholic family.


FROM SHORE TO SHORE: IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITY

Examines both the continuity and the changes that have affected Irish traditional music since the turn of the century.


THE HARD ROAD TO KLONDIKE

Based on the autobiography of Donegal-born Michael MacGowan, (1865-1948), this video is a stirring account of his life as a migrant worker and exile in America at the turn of the century.


HARP OF MY COUNTRY

This musical biography is a documentary-style recreation of the life of Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Ireland's greatest national lyric poet, whose melodies and poems were revered throughout 19th-century Europe.


HUSH-A-BYE BABY

This feature-length drama from Northern Ireland portrays a group of teenage schoolgirls (starring Emer McCourt and Sinead O'Connor) at a convent school, giddy with excitement over their discovery of boys and a newfound sense of sexuality, and the emotional turmoil and social isolation one of them experiences when she must deal with an unexpected pregnancy.


I CREATED DRACULA

This documentary examines the life and work of the Dublin born writer, Bram Stoker (1847-1912), who is best known as the author of the classic horror novel, Dracula.


IF THESE WALLS COULD SPEAK!: MURAL PAINTING IN BELFAST

This documentary examines the tradition of both the Catholic/Nationalist and Protestant/Loyalist communities in Northern Ireland of painting huge murals on building walls, both as a way to celebrate cultural heroes or commemorate significant historical events as well as to demarcate their respective neighborhoods.


IRELAND, MOTHER IRELAND

This concert, performed at the elegant 18th-century Dublin residence of the American Ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith, features tenor James W. Flannery, accompanied by pianist William Ransom and harpist Cormac DeBarra, who perform a wide range of Irish favorites.


JAMES JOYCE: THE TRIALS OF ULYSSES

This video tells the story of Joyce’s epic novel, Ulysses, his most famous creation and certainly the most renowned work of fiction of the twentieth century.


KEEP THE PARTY GOING: IRISH WAKES

This video explores the Irish tradition of 'waking the dead,' when an all-night vigil is maintained at the home of the deceased the night before burial.


A LOVE DIVIDED

Based on a true story, A Love Divided is the dramatic tale of a marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant in 1950's Ireland, a marriage that divided a nation.


MCSORLEY'S NEW YORK

Traces the history of one of New York City's most venerable drinking establishments, McSorley's Old Ale House, from its establishment by Irish immigrant John McSorley in 1854 to the present day.


A MILLION BRICKS

This video tells the story of Springfield Park, a housing estate built in the early Sixties in West Belfast, made up of both Catholic and Protestant families who lived side by side in harmony.


MOTHER IRELAND

Examines the imagery which for centuries has portrayed Ireland as a woman and discusses the social function of these romantic stereotypes of Irish womanhood and their relationship to the nationalist struggle and Irish women today.


MOVING MYTHS

A provocative look at the Protestant and Catholic churches in Ireland, examining both the myths and realities of their legislative and educational influence on such issues as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and women's rights.


NO IRISH NEED APPLY

Novelist Peter Quinn hosts this documentary on Irish immigration into New York City in the mid-nineteenth century.


NO OFFENCE: IRELAND'S OTHER PROTESTANTS

This video examines the status of Protestants in the Republic of Ireland and the perceptions of Northern Protestants about their co- religionists.


NO OFFENCE: HOLY GROUND?

This video examines the changing face of Catholicism, including the recent sexual abuse scandals and controversies surrounding contraception, abortion, and the role of women in the Church.


NO OFFENCE: LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG

This video examines the changing status of women in Ireland and the struggle to gain women's rights from the government, the Church, and employers.


OUT OF THE ASHES: NORTHERN IRELAND'S FRAGILE PEACE

This video, part of a series of documentaries on conflict resolution in the world’s trouble spots, offers personal and historical views of the unrest in Northern Ireland from the mid-Sixties to the present day.


THE PIPES ARE CALLING

Portrays a summer bagpipe school in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where piping enthusiasts from all over North America gather to learn the craft and music of the traditional instrument of the Scottish highlands.


REEL IRISH

This video examines the world of amateur Irish dancing, featuring interviews with Irish women in Great Britain who have passed on this cultural tradition within their own families and the wider Irish immigrant community.


THE ROAD OF WOMEN

The voices of women prisoners take us on a journey to Northern Ireland, a journey into and out of prison, a journey of personal and political struggle and growth.


SEX IN A COLD CLIMATE

This historical documentary is a deeply disturbing portrait of Magdalene Asylums run by Catholic nuns in Ireland. For over a hundred years girls and young women were sent to live and work in the Magdalene Asylums’ Laundries after they’d had sexual or 'sinful' contact with men.


SONS OF DERRY

Portrays the efforts of two men-the Protestant Glen Barr, one-time political advisor to the Ulster Defense Association, and the Catholic Paddy Doherty, former spokesman for the Derry Defense Association-to overcome the bitter enmities of the past with imaginative solutions to the problems of Northern Ireland's second largest city.


SPIRIT OF TREES - OLD OAKS

A visit to England's Windsor Great Park, a celebrated site for ancient oaks, reveals the importance of trees in the ecosystem's complex process of renewal and regeneration, while the monks of Glenstall Abbey in Ireland explain how one's interest in trees can be both spiritual (serving as guardians of the forest) and commercial (producing beautifully crafted wood products).


SPIRIT OF TREES - FOLKLORE OF TREES

A visit to England's Windsor Great Park, a celebrated site for ancient oaks, reveals the importance of trees in the ecosystem's complex process of renewal and regeneration, while the monks of Glenstall Abbey in Ireland explain how one's interest in trees can be both spiritual (serving as guardians of the forest) and commercial (producing beautifully crafted wood products).


TO LIVE FOR IRELAND

Examines the political turmoil and sectarian violence that has racked Northern Ireland for the last twenty years by profiling the efforts of the Social Democrat and Labor Party (SDLP) to achieve peace in Northern Ireland through nonviolent means.


UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE

This feature-length film dramatizes the experiences of three Irish children during the Great Potato Famine of 1845.


UNEXPECTED OPENINGS

This video chronicles the evolution of the paramilitary organizations in Northern Ireland from the time of the ‘Troubles’ through the current tenuous peace process.