APPROACHES TO IRELAND through film Geoffrey Keating
FILM HistoryCultureSocietyLanguage
DUBLIN The Commitments (1991) Roddy Doyle The Van (1996) Roddy Doyle The General – John Boorman (1998) Intermission (2003) Mark O’Rowe Adam and Paul – Leonard Abrahamson (2004) Mark O’Halloran Once (2006)
RURAL The Quiet Man – John Ford (1952) The Field – Jim Sheridan (1990) The Butcher Boy – Neil Jordan (1996) Pat McCabe Dancing at Lughnasa – Pat O’Connor (1998) Brian Friel Garage – Leonard Abrahamson (2007) Mark O’Halloran DruidSynge – Garry Hynes (2007)
POLITICAL In the Name of the Father – Jim Sheridan (1993) Michael Collins – Neil Jordan (1996) Bloody Sunday (2002) The Wind that Shakes the Barley – Ken Loach (2006)
SOCIETY My Left Foot – Jim Sheridan (1989) The Magdalene Sisters (2002) 1841 – 8.2 m