Irish Films at Bucknell
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The following are films of Irish interest owned by Bertrand
Library. Students can check them out for viewing inside or outside the
Library with a Bucknell ID. If you know of an Irish-oriented film owned by
Bucknell that is not on this list, please send me an e-mail at rickard@bucknell.edu
to let me know about it. Write-ups are adapted from library online records.
This is only a partial list of our holdings; you can obtain a fuller list by
searching the catalog for the subject "Ireland" while specifying
"Video or DVD" as format. |
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60 Minutes: Boy Next Door
Call Number: HV6452.N72 B6 1990
Year Released
1990
About:
An interview with Mickey Featherstone, former member of the
Westies, an Irish gang active in
the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City. Featherstone was
released into the custody of the
Witness Protection Program after his testimony imprisoned gang
leader Jimmie Coonan for 75
years. Questions whether Featherstone, variously described as a
vicious dog, a psychotic
and a paranoid schizophrenic, is fit to rejoin society.
A Man of No Importance
Call Number: PN 1997 MAN OF
Year Released Director:
1995 Suri Krishnamma
About:
Starring Albert Finney and Brenda Fricker. A bus driver dreams of
producing a play by his
hero, Oscar Wilde, with his theatrical troupe of untalented
amateurs. When a beautiful young
woman steps on the bus and into his life, she becomes his
inspiration, and he forges ahead
with his plan in spite of the opposition of his sister and his
landlord.
A Million Bricks
Call Number: DA990.U46 M56 1999
Year Released Director:
1999 Frank Martin
About:
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
together in harmony until "The
Troubles" erupted in the early Seventies when the neighborhood
was caught in a three-way
crossfire between nationalist and loyalist forces and the
occupying British Army. Today, on
the site of what was once Belfast's last religiously mixed
community, Protestants and
Catholics are separated by the peace line, a wall of a million
bricks.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Call Number: PR6019.O9 Z8225 1989
Year Released Director:
1977 Joseph Strick
About:
Joseph Strick's adaptation of Joyce's novel.
All different, all equal
Call Number: JZ1318.L54 2002
Year Released Director:
2000 Di Tatham
About:
Part 11 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects
ordinary people. Looks at
progress in achieving greater equality for women -- five years
after the Beijing Conference
on Women where government delegations pledged themselves to tackle
increasing violence
against women. Examines gains in women's rights globally with
visits to Northern Ireland,
Nigeria, Fiji, New Zealand, Brazil and other nations focusing on
crimes against women and
achievements by women towards equality.
Angela's Ashes
Call Number: PN1997 ANGELA
Year Released Director:
1999 Alan Parker
About:
Starring Emily Watson. Brings
Frank McCourt's memoir of childhood in Limerick to the screen.
The Art of Celtic Manuscripts
Call Number: ND3359.K4 A78
Year Released
1993
About:
This program introduces ten early medieval manuscripts, including
the most famous–the Book
of Kells–as well as the Book of Durrow and the Cathach, the oldest
surviving Biblical
manuscript. (26 min.)
Beckett on Film
Call Number: PR6003.E282 B44 2001
DISCS 1-4
Year Released
2000
About:
A four-DVD set produced by RTR (Irish national television). A stunning collection of plays,
directed and acted by outstanding talents, including Neil Jordan,
Anthony Minghella, David
Mamet, Milo O'Shea, Jeremy Irons, John Hurt, Julianne Moore, Alan
Rickman, Kristin Scott-
Thomas, Juliet Stephenson, and many more.
Behind the Mask: the IRA and Sinn Fein
Call Number: DA963.B444 1997
Year Released Director:
1997 Andrew Williams
About:
Tells the story of the Irish Republican Army and its political
wing Sinn Fein, including America's
role in this struggle with Britain.
Belfast: The Sad Reality
Call Number: DA995.B5 B45 2007
Year Released Director:
2007 Jesse Barrett-Mills
About:
For over 700 years, the country of Northern Ireland has been
plagued by civil unrest. This
tension between the Catholics and the Protestants has caused
thousands of deaths in the
past 30 years alone. This film hopes to raise awareness of this nation’s
struggles by
examining one man's story of the history of the conflict and the
potential means to a peaceful
resolution.
Bloody Sunday
Call Number: PN1997 BLOODY
Year Released Director:
2002 Paul Greengrass
About:
Dramatic recreation of the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry,
Northern Ireland, when
British paratroopers opened fire on a civil rights march.
Bloom
Call Number: PN1997 BLOOM
Year Released Director:
2003 Sean Walsh
About:
All of life in a single day takes place on the morning of June 16,
1904 in Dublin, Ireland.
Leopold Bloom is a tragic figure who walks the streets of Dublin
while his wife Molly, commits
adultery with barely the regard to try to conceal it. Intermingled
is Stephen Dedalus, an English
poet who is in the service of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Take
a journey into the lives and
minds of these three characters in this enthralling story of love,
loss, and lust. Based on
Joyce's Ulysses.
Bloomsday
Call Number: PR6019.O9 U6264 1992
Year Released Director:
1999 Paul Howard
About:
This documentary captures the day-long Bloomsday celebration, an
annual event where
devotees of James Joyce recreate and relive the famous odyssey
through Dublin of Ulysses'
main character Leopold Bloom.
The Boxer
Call Number: PN1997 BOXER
Year Released Director:
1998 Jim Sheridan
About:
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, et al. When
Danny Flynn (Day-Lewis)
returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all
he wants is to find peace,
resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has
remained etched in his mind.
As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they
realize cultural taboos
stand in the way. (114 min.)
Breakfast on Pluto
Call Number: PN1997 BREAK4
Year Released Director:
2006 Neil Jordan
About:
As foster kid Patrick 'Kitten' Braden grows up, he leaves behind
his small-town life in Ireland
for London, where he's reborn as a transvestite cabaret singer in
the 1960s and 70s.
The Brothers McMullen
Call Number: PN1997 BROTHERS
Year Released Director:
2000 Edward Burns
About:
After their good-for-nothing father dies and their mother leaves
to be with the man she really
loves, brothers Jack, Barry and Patrick are left with only each
other as they struggle with
their relationships. Married Jack is tempted to have an affair;
Patrick isn't sure his fiancée is
'the one'; and Barry can't deal with the fact that he is actually
falling in love.
The Butcher Boy
Call Number: PN1997 BUTCHER
Year Released Director:
1998 Neil Jordan
About:
Starring Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Sinead O'Connor, and Eamonn
Owens. Set in 1962 (The
Cuban Missile Crisis) in a small Irish town, Francie Brady, a
young boy, struggles with a
dysfunctional home life.
Cal
Call Number: PN1997 CAL
Year Released Director:
1990 Pat O'Connor
About:
From the novel by Bernard MacLaverty. Starring Helen Mirren, John
Lynch, Donal McCann, et
al. A young man is drawn into political and romantic conflict in
Northern Ireland.
Céilí dancing step by step
Call Number: GV1646.I8 C45 1999
Year Released
1999
Circle of Friends
Call Number: PN1997 CIRCLE
Year Released Director:
1995 Pat O'Connor
About:
Starring Chris O’Donnell, Colin Firth, and Minnie Driver. Set in
Ireland, this is the story of three
girls who were friends when growing up. They are reunited in
college, and renew their
bonds. The central figure is Benny, a big girl with dreams, who
sets her cap for the brightest
and handsomest boy on campus. (102 min.)
The Commitments
Call Number: PN1997 COMMIT
Year Released Director:
1991 Alan Parker
About:
From the novel by Roddy Doyle. Story of a young rebel soul band
from the Dublin ghetto, and
their struggle to make it in the music business. (118 min.)
The Crying game
Call Number: PN1997 CRYING
Year Released Director:
1992 Neil Jordan
About:
Starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, and
Forest Whitaker. A haunting,
humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists,
their hostage and the hostage’s
exotic girlfriend. (112 min.)
Dancing at Lughnasa
Call Number: PN1997 DANCING
Year Released Director:
1999 Brian Friel
About:
Starring Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, et
al. Despite their hardships,
five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 are able to embrace
life and all its complexities and
dance with joy in their hearts.
Danny Boy
Call Number: PN1997 DANNY
Year Released Director:
1982 Neil Jordan
About:
Starring Stephen Rea. A saxophonist in Northern Ireland avenges
the murder of the band’s
manager in this tale of violence and its victims.
Daughters of the troubles: Belfast Stories
Call Number: DA995.B5 D38 1996
Year Released Director:
1996 Marcia Rock
About:
Filmed during the fragile 17-month paramilitary cease-fire
(September 1994 to February 1996),
the documentary focuses on the social impact of decades of
political upheaval. The history of
Northern Ireland's Troubles is told from the point of view of two
women, Geraldine O'Reagan
(a Catholic) and May Blood (a Protestant).
The Dead
Call Number: PN1997 DEAD1
Year Released Director:
1987 John Huston
About:
Adaptation of James Joyce’s classic short story. Starring Angelica
Huston and Donal McCann.
Takes place in turn-of-the century Dublin, at a holiday feast
vibrant with food and spirit. A
young couple at the party, Gretta and Gabriel Conroy, seem to have
everything to be grateful
for. But that night, a tenor’s voice recalls poignant memories,
and Gabriel learns of his wife’s
unforgotten young love.
Discoveries... Ireland: a Celtic treasure
Call Number: DA978.2.D57 2001
Year Released
2001
Discoveries... Ireland: a mystical journey
Call Number: DA978.2.D585 2001
Year Released
2001
Discoveries... Ireland: the Emerald Isle
Call Number: DA978.2.D588 2001
Year Released
2001
Eavan Boland
Call Number: PR6052.O35 Z464 1994
Year Released Director:
1994 Dan Griggs
About:
Readings from and discussion with Eavan Boland, "a major
Irish poet, who explores the
relationship between gender, art, and national identity - ‘the
meeting place between
womanhood and history’ - in her nine books of poetry." Boland
discussed her work with Los
Angeles poet Klein Healy on November 16, 1994, in Los Angeles. (60
min.)
Endgame in Ireland: Ceasefire: Guns and
government
Call Number: DA963.E5255 2002
Year Released
2002
Endgame in Ireland: Bomb and ballot box
Call Number: DA963.E525 2002
Year Released
2002
Far and Away
Call Number: PN1997 FAR2
Year Released Director:
1998 Ron Howard
About:
Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. A poor but proud Irish tenant farmer
accompanies the
spoiled and headstrong
daughter of a wealthy landlord to America in a quest for land.
The Field
Call Number: PN1997 FIELD
Year Released Director:
1990 Jim Sheridan
About:
Based on the play by John B. Keane. Starring Richard Harris, John
Hurt, Brenda Fricker. The
field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an
old man. When the owner sells
the land to an American developer the old man decides to fight the
change, regardless of the
cost.
Gangs of New York
Call Number: PN1997 GANGS DISC.1-2
Year Released Director:
2003 Martin Scorsese
About:
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York
neighborhood of Five Points.
"Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native
Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang
"The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an
bloody clash Vallon is dead and his
son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns
to seek vengeance against
the man that killed his father.
The Hanging Gale
Call Number: PN1997 HANGING
Year Released Director:
2005 Diarmuid Lawrence
About:
The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and
a priest - are torn between
nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato
famine of the 1840s. Real-life
brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.
Hear My Song
Call Number: PN1997 HEAR
Year Released Director:
1991 Peter Chelsom
About:
Starring Ned Beatty, Tara Fitzgerald, David McCallum, et al. A
young man who has lost the
affections of his ladylove thinks he can win her back by locating
the reclusive Irish tenor her
mother once loved.
Here Are Ladies
Call Number: PR8723.W6 H47
Year Released
1987
About:
Women as seen through the eyes of Irish authors. (60 min.)
Hidden Agenda
Call Number: PN1997 HIDDEN
Year Released Director:
1991 Ken Loach
About:
In Northern Ireland, two American researchers investigate the
torture of civilians by
Government Security Forces. When Paul is given a tape containing
explosive evidence, he is
"accidentally" killed and his partner Ingrid joins
forces with a tough cop to expose the truth.
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Call Number: PN1997 HOW5
Year Released Director:
1982 Moira Armstrong
About:
Derek Mahon’s adaptation of Jennifer Johnston’s novel. Starring
Daniel Day- Lewis and Sian
Phillips. Alex and Jerry were close childhood friends despite
their class differences, and
remain friends in the army. When Jerry is court-martialed for
desertion, Alex must deal with
being in charge of the firing squad. (111 min.)
If These Walls Could Speak
Call Number: DA995.B5 I32 2001
Year Released Director:
2001 Nancy du Plessis
About:
Documentary concerning political murals in Northern Ireland.
Murals depicted on buildings and
various structures, describe the various ethnic groups of the
Catholics and the Protestants
and how they articulate their identity along with the history of
their struggles in Ireland.
In Search of Ancient Ireland
Call Number: DA930.I57 2002 PT.1,
PT.2
Year Released Director:
2002 Leo Eaton
In Search of Ancient Ireland
Call Number: DA930.I57 2003
Year Released Director:
2003 Leo Eaton
About:
A look at the history and legends of ancient Ireland. Begins in
2000 B.C., when Stone Age
farmers built some of the largest and most spectacular Neolithic
monuments in Europe, and
continues through 1167 A.D, when the Norman invasion placed
Ireland under English control.
In the Name of the Father
Call Number: PN1997 IN THE N
Year Released Director:
1998 Jim Sheridan
About:
Based on the true story of Gerry Conlon, a young Irish hoodlum who
is caught in the wrong
place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist
bombing. He and his father, along
with Gerry’s friends, are found guilty and sentenced to life in
prison. There, his father shows
his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and
clear his father’s name.
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite.
The Informer
Call Number: PN1997 INFORME
Year Released Director:
1990 John Ford
About:
Based on the story by Liam O’Flaherty. Starring Victor McLaglen.
The story of hard drinking
Gippo Nolan who informs on a buddy in order to collect a reward
during the Irish rebellion. He
squanders the money on women and drink, and then suffers intense
emotional anguish.
Into the West
Call Number: PN1997 INTO THE
Year Released Director:
1993 Mike Newell
About:
Starring Gabriel Byrne and Ellan Barkin. Highly recommended film
depicting the contemporary
culture of the Travellers or Tinkers of Ireland. When a rich horse
breeder tries to take a
magical horse away from two Traveller children living in a Dublin
housing project, their only
hope is to escape into the west.
Irish Dance: See it! Feel it! Love it!
Call Number: GV1646.I8 I74 1997
Year Released
1997
About:
pt. 1 and pt. 2. Irish choreographers discuss the origins and
history of Irish folk dancing and
its current popularity around the world, with commentary on
Riverdance. Includes
demonstrations.
The Irish in America
Call Number: E184.I6 I74 1997
Year Released
1997
About:
Follows the nation's first immigrant group on their journey to the
American dream. From war
hero and President Andrew Jackson to union organizer Mother Jones,
you'll meet the colorful
Irish-Americans who fought and worked their way past oppression
and into history.
The Irish R.M. Series 1
Call Number: PN1992.8.F67 I74
SERIES1
Year Released Director:
2003 Rosemary Anne Sisson
The Irish R.M. Series 2
Call Number: PN1992.8.F67 I74
SERIES2
Year Released Director:
2004 Rosemary Anne Sisson
The Irish R.M. Series 3
Call Number: PN1992.8.F67 I74
SERIES3
Year Released Director:
2005 Hugh Leonard
J.P. Donleavy's Ireland
Call Number: PS3507.O686 Z467 1992
Year Released
1992
About:
Writer/narrator: J.P. Donleavy, Irish-American novelist.
Joyce, Yeats and Wilde
Call Number: PR8750.J69 1992
Year Released
1992
About:
Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, and Richard Ellmann, a Goldsmith
Professor at Oxford University,
discuss the lives and works of Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats
and James Joyce and share
their own insights into these Irish literary greats.
Joyce's Ulysses
Call Number: PR6019.O9 Z5785 2001
DISC1
Year Released
2001
About:
A Series of lectures on Ulysses given by James A.W. Heffernan.
Juno and the Paycock
Call Number: PR6029.C33 J86
Year Released Director:
1930 Alfred Hitchcock
About:
Based on the play by Sean O’Casey. Adapted and directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. After a poor
man’s legacy fails for come through, his armless son is shot by an
informer. A dramatic story
of Ireland and the Dublin Rebellion.
The Magdalene Sisters
Call Number: PN 1997 MAGDA
Year Released Director:
2002 Peter Mullan
About:
Controversial film depicting conditions in Irish "industrial
schools" and Magdaline laundries in
modern Ireland.
Man of Aran
Call Number: DA990.A8 M37 2003
Year Released Director:
1934 Robert Flaherty
About:
A classic early documentary that documents the life of a family in
a small fishing village in the
Aran Islands, Ireland, as it struggles to win the daily battle
against its magnificent
opponent–the sea.
Michael Collins
Call Number: PN1997 MICHAEL
Year Released Director:
1996 Neil Jordan
About:
Starring Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, and
Julia Roberts. Set
in1916, presents the life of an Irish leader who fought for
Ireland’s break from England. (133
min.)
The Miracle
Call Number: PN1997 MIRACLE
Year Released Director:
1990 Neil Jordan
About:
Starring Beverly D’Angelo and Donal McCann. Every summer, two
teenage friends spend their
days making up stories about the tourists who wander into their
tiny seaside town outside of
Dublin. When the circus comes to town, a beautiful, mysterious
woman awakens in one of
them an obsessive love.
Mirror, Mirror: Northern Ireland
Call Number: DA 990.U46 M57 1994
Year Released Director:
1994
About:
Part of Films for the Humanities series "Nationalism: Blood
and Belonging." Written by Michael
Ignatieff. Focuses on the Loyalists of Northern Ireland:
Protestant, anti-Catholic, anti-
European, anti-Irish, monarchists who cling to a nation-state–the
UK–but feel abandoned by
the British.
Mother Ireland
Call Number: DA926.W7 M57X 1988
Year Released Director:
1988 Anne Crilly
About:
Examines the centuries-old imagery that has portrayed Ireland as a
woman and discusses the
social function of these stereotypes of Irish womanhood and their
relationship to the
nationalist struggle and Irish women today.
Moving Myths
Call Number: BR796.3.M68 1989
Year Released
1989
About:
Examines the influence of the Protestant and Catholic churches in
Ireland, and looks at the
notion that the war in Northern Ireland is a religious war by
tracing the historical roots of
discrimination on the basis of religion and revealing its
present-day reality in terms of
economic factors. Includes interviews with people who were raised
in the Christian tradition
but have left the church.
My Left Foot
Call Number: PN1997 MY LEFT
Year Released Director:
1989 Jim Sheridan
About:
From the book by Shane Connaughton. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and
Brenda Fricker. The
story of Christy Brown, an Irish artist and writer with cerebral
palsy.
Nora
Call Number: PN1997 NORA
Year Released Director:
2000 Pat Murphy
About:
Ewan McGregor stars as James Joyce in Pat Murphy's dramatization
of Brenda Maddox's
controversial biography of James Joyce's wife Nora Barnacle.
Off Our Knees!
Call Number: JC599.G72 N6756 1988
Year Released
1988
About:
Written and narrated by Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Produced by
the ‘68 Committee. A
documentary and commentary on the Civil Rights Movement in
Northern Ireland made by some
of its central participants. Contains archive film, interviews,
murals, posters and songs of the
period.
Oliver St. John Gogarty: Silence Would Never
Do
Call Number: PR6013.O28 Z83 1987
Year Released Director:
1987 Donald Taylor Black
About:
Portrait of Irish author Oliver St. John Gogarty. Covers his early
school career and later
education at Royal University and Trinity College. Documents his
athletic prowess, early
success as a prize poet and relations with James Joyce and
depiction as Buck Mulligan in
Joyce’s Ulysses. Also documents Gogarty’s subsequent career as
poet, husband, physician,
Senator, and, after 1939, U.S. resident, citizen, and free-lance
writer. (53 min.)
Once
Call Number: PN1997 ONCE2
Year Released Director:
2007 John Carney
About:
A Guy lives in Dublin. He is a guitarist/singer-songwriter who
makes a living by fixing vacuum
cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day. By night, he
sings and plays for money on
the Dublin streets. A Girl from Czechoslovakia loves to play the
piano when she gets a
chance. During the day she does odd jobs. At night she takes care
of her mom and her
daughter. Guy meets Girl, and they get to know each other. Girl
helps Guy put together a
demo disc so he can take it to London in hope of landing a music
contract. At the same time,
the Guy and the Girl work through their past loves, and reveal
their budding love for one
another, through their songs.
Oscar Wilde: Spendthrift of Genius
Call Number: PR5823.O6678 1994
Year Released
1994
About:
A portrait of the multi-talented and self-destructive genius that
is generously sprinkled with
Wilde’s infamous bon mots. Includes the only known recording by
Wilde of "The Ballad of
Reading Gaol." (60 min.)
The Patriot Game
Call Number: DA990.U46 P378 1979
Year Released Director:
1970 Arthur MacCaig
About:
Highlighted by eyewitness accounts and footage of the IRA at work,
this program tells the story
of the conflict in Northern Ireland. It begins with historical
background from British colonization
to the territory's division in 1922, then details the events of
1968-1978 which included such
massacres as the infamous "Bloody Sunday." Much of the
filming was done without
permission of the British Army or the authorities, and is an
"unabashedly nationalist portrait."
The Playboys
Call Number: PN1997 PLAYBOY
Year Released Director:
1992 Gillies MacKinnon
About:
Screenplay by Shane Connaughton.
Starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright, Milo
O’Shea. When a young unmarried mother, who has scandalized a rural
Irish town by keeping
the identity of her child’s father a secret, falls in love with an
actor in a traveling theatre
company, the jealousy of the local police sergeant threatens her
secret. (113 min.)
Question Time
Call Number: HF1534.5.Z4 G76
Year Released
1989
About:
Live recordings of question time in Parliament held on 28 November
and 5 December 1989.
Margaret Thatcher is questioned by members of parliament about the
British role in Northern
Ireland (and other issues).
The Quiet Man
Call Number: PN1997 QUIET
Year Released Director:
1952 John Ford
About:
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the
past and live peacefully in his
village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister
of a belligerent neighbor, and
trouble ensues over payment of her dowry. Stars John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry
Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick, and
Arthur Shields. Winner of two
academy awards.
The Railway Station Man
Call Number: PN1997 RAIL
Year Released Director:
1993 Michael Whyte
About:
Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland star as a widowed artist and
an eccentric American
whose blossoming romance plays against the political turmoil in
present day Ireland. Based on
the novel by Jennifer Johnston.
Reimagining Ireland
Call Number: PR6052.O35 R45 1999
Year Released
1999
About:
Recorded at Bucknell University while Boland was the Sandra and
Gary Sojka Visiting Poet.
Riverdance, the Show
Call Number: GV1646.I8 R58 1996
Year Released
1996
About:
A visually stunning celebration of Irish music, song, and dance.
Road to Bloody Sunday
Call Number: DA995.L75 R62 1998
Year Released Director:
1998 Alan D. Austin
About:
According to the case: "Chronicles the troubles in Northern
Ireland, focusing on four turbulent
years from 1968 to 1972. Featured segments include the rise of the
Catholic civil rights
movement and the outbreaks of violence that followed; the return
of British troops and the
IRA; and the culmination of Bloody Sunday and the fall of the
Northern Irish government."
The Run of the Country
Call Number: PN1997 RUN
Year Released Director:
1995 Peter Yates
About:
Starring Albert Finney, Matt Keeslar, and Victoria Smurfit. Based
on the novel by Shane
Connaughton. Shaken by his mother’s recent death, Danny runs away
from his overbearing
father in search of independence. As he and his friend Prunty are
enjoying "the run of the
country," they meet Annagh, an enchanting and spirited girl
who brings romance into Danny’s
life for the first time. (116 min.)
Ryan's Daughter
Call Number: PN1997 RYAN'S
Year Released Director:
1990 David Lean
About:
2 parts. Video release of a 1970 motion picture (MGM). In Ireland
in 1916, Rosy Ryan marries
her gentle, middle-aged schoolmaster but later falls in love with
a British soldier. (194 mins.)
Seamus Heaney
Call Number: PR6058.E2 Z75 1991
Year Released
1991
About:
Seamus Heaney from County Derry, bears witness to Ireland's
complex, violent past and
present. One of the finest living poets, he reads from Selected
Poems 1966-1987 and talks
with Michael Silverblatt. The reading and conversation took place
on Oct. 15, 1991, in Los
Angeles.
The Secret of Roan Inish
Call Number: PN1997 SECRET
Year Released Director:
1995 John Sayles
About:
The magical tale of a girl whose search for her missing brother
brings an Irish legend to life.
The Snapper
Call Number: PN1997 SNAP
Year Released Director:
1993 Stephen Frears
About:
Comedy about a close-knit, boisterous Irish family, and the
commotion that follows the oldest
daughter’s announcement that she is pregnant. The whole town is
thrown into a tizzy when
she refuses to reveal the father’s name. Based on the novel by
Roddy Doyle.
Some Mother's Son
Call Number: PN1997 SOME6
Year Released Director:
1996 Terry George
About:
Starring Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanaghan, Aidan Gillen. Based on
the true story of the 1981
hunger strike in a Britain prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby
Sands led a protest against the
treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of
the war.
Sons of Derry
Call Number: DA995.L75 S65 1993
Year Released Director:
1993 Marcia Rock
About:
Describes the efforts of two men--one Protestant, one Catholic--
to overcome the bitter
enmities of the past with constructive solutions to the problems
of Northern Ireland's second
largest city. Chronicles the history of Derry, and shows how these
men are working in
different ways to rebuild the city.
Southpaw
Call Number: PN1997 SOUTH2
Year Released Director:
2000 Paddy Breathnach
About:
Documentary about the Irish boxer, Francis Barrett who grew up in
a cluttered trailer park
among a group of poor gypsies, who are scorned by Irish society.
Against all odds, Francis
participates in the 1996 Olympics and represents Ireland. An
unflinching tribute to an unlikely
hero who is a boxing champion and national hero.
The Story of English
Call Number: PE1075.S86
Year Released
1986
About:
Episodes 4 and 8 of the PBS series on the English Language:
"The Guid Scots Tongue" and
"The Loaded Weapon" examine the development and
influence of Scots and Irish Gaelic and
dialects.
The Struggle for Democracy
Call Number: E185.61.S8 1989
Year Released Director:
1989 George James
About:
Program 4, The Tyranny of the Majority. PBS series examining majority/minority
conflicts in
three western democratic societies: the American Blacks’ civil
rights movement, the Australian
Aborigines campaign for full land rights, and the Catholic
minority’s struggle in Northern
Ireland. Hosted by Patrick Watson. (57 mins.)
To Live for Ireland
Call Number: DA990.U46 T65 1986
Year Released Director:
1986 Mary Pat Kelly
About:
Offers a new and unusual look at the political turmoil and
sectarian violence that has racked
Northern Ireland for the last fifteen years
The True Story of the Molly Maguires
Call Number: HV6452.P4 M6 1998
Year Released
1998
About:
In the 1870's, twenty Irish immigrants suspected of belonging to a
secret terrorist
organization, the Molly Maguires, were executed in the coal mining
region of eastern
Pennsylvania. Their crime was the murder of sixteen men, mainly
mine officials. Ever since, a
debate has raged over who the Mollies were.
Ulysses
Call Number: PN1997 ULYSSES2
Year Released Director:
1967 Joseph Strick
About:
Director Joseph Strick's homage to James Joyce's 1922 novel. Starring Milo O'Shea as
Leopold Bloom.
Veronica Guerin
Call Number: PN1997 VERON
Year Released Director:
2003 Jerry Bruckheimer
About:
Starring Cate Blanchett in the real story of an Irish journalist
murdered in 1996 while
investigating the drug trade in Dublin.
Voices from Northern Ireland
Call Number: DA990.U46 V65 1986
Year Released Director:
1986 Michael Niedermann
About:
Interviews with people living in Belfast and Derry recorded in the
Fall of 1985. It provides a
revealing picture of the lives of working class peoples and shows
how "The Troubles" have
changed their lives and polarized the Catholic and Protestant
population.
Walking into eternity: James Joyce's Ulysses
Call Number: PR6019.O9 U765 1999
Year Released Director:
1999 Patrick Ryan
About:
Documentary on Joyce's Dublin.
When Ireland Starved: An Gorta
Mór
Call Number: DA 950.7.W44 1992
Year Released Director:
1992 Joseph Dunn
About:
A documentary on the Great Hunger of the 19th century.
Wilde
Call Number: PR5823.W475 1998
Year Released Director:
1998 Brian Gilbert
About:
Starring Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, et al. Notorious
poet and playwright
Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there’s only
so much that late Victorian
England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of
unrealized homosexual desire, his
life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the
repercussions wrought by a
"pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true
to his nature. (116 min.)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Call Number: PN1997 WIND4
Year Released Director:
2007 Paul Laverty
About:
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien
abandons his burgeoning
career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and
violent fight for freedom in
Ireland in 1920. As the Irish freedom fighters' bold tactics bring
the British to a breaking point,
both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But,
despite the apparent victory,
civil war erupts and families who fought side by side find
themselves pitted against one
another, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test.