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  • 2018
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    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    6.00 2018 HD

    Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne -...

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  • 2003
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    A Ferret Called Mickey

    A Ferret Called Mickey

    6.00 2003 HD

    Eight year old Paulie is happiest when dressing-up in his mother’s high heels and having tea parties in the garden. His father however would...

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  • 1977
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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    6.00 1977 HD

    Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures...

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  • 2000
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    When Brendan Met Trudy

    When Brendan Met Trudy

    4.00 2000 HD

    Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the...

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  • 1990
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    The Lilac Bus

    The Lilac Bus

    7.00 1990 HD

    The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.

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  • 1979
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    Katie: The Year of a Child

    Katie: The Year of a Child

    1 1979 HD

    Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and her nine brothers and sisters in Dublin whilst her...

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  • 2000
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    From a Whisper to a Scream: The Living History of Irish Music

    From a Whisper to a Scream: The Living History of Irish Music

    1 2000 HD

    Story of Irish popular music from 1950 to the present day told by the artists, songwriters, producers and executives who made it all happen. It tells...

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  • 1990
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    Dear Sarah

    Dear Sarah

    1 1990 HD

    Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as...

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  • 2018
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    Damo & Ivor: The Movie

    Damo & Ivor: The Movie

    7.60 2018 HD

    Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures to find the last piece of their family puzzle and track down their long lost brother John Joe.

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  • 2017
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    Jaha's Promise

    Jaha's Promise

    7.75 2017 HD

    A documentary about the life and activism of Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian anti-female genital mutilation campaigner who returns to her country of birth to...

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  • 2005
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    Showbands

    Showbands

    1 2005 HD

    It's Ireland in the 1960s and showbands and ballrooms are big business. However, Tony is struggling to repay his bank loan and is in danger of losing...

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  • 2024
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    Sinéad

    Sinéad

    8.00 2024 HD

    With contributions from David Holmes, Christy Moore, Imelda May, Don Letts, BP Fallon and more, this documentary reflects on Sineád...

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  • 2016
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    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

    1.00 2016 HD

    A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

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  • 2002
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    From Darkness

    From Darkness

    6.80 2002 HD

    A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale.

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  • 2008
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    Alarm

    Alarm

    4.50 2008 HD

    A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards...

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  • 1982
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    The Ballroom of Romance

    The Ballroom of Romance

    7.20 1982 HD

    A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

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  • 1985
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    Summer Lightning

    Summer Lightning

    2.00 1985 HD

    Sir Robert Clarke looks back on his life and the summer when as a 16-year-old he first fell in love with Louise St. Leger.

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  • 2014
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    Smack 'Em Up: Reality Bites

    Smack 'Em Up: Reality Bites

    6.50 2014 HD

    Fergal Devitt is an enigmatic Bray man who allows the cameras into his life showing us what it is like to be one of the biggest names in the bizarre...

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  • 2000
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    Krapp's Last Tape

    Krapp's Last Tape

    7.40 2000 HD

    In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the...

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  • 2022
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    The Sparrow

    The Sparrow

    5.40 2022 HD

    A teenager lies about his brother's death and struggles to face the consequences that unfold until his domineering father offers the possibility of...

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