Eileen Colgan

Joseph, babasının ölümünün ardından bu olayın peşini bırakmasa da başı, beladan kurtulmaz. En sonunda Stephen Chase isimli üstüyle tartışır ve sonunda ülkeyi terk etmeyi aklına koyar. Bu yolculukta ona eşlik edecek kişi ise Chase'in kendisinden nefret eden kızı Shannon olur. Shannon, Joseph'e yardımcı olur ve birlikte Amerika'ya kaçarlar. Amerika'ya vardıklarında Oklahoma'daki arazi satışlarında bir yer satın alma hayalleri kurarlar ve bunu gerçekleştirmek için büyük bir azimle çalışmaya başlarlar. Zorlu şartlar altında hayallerine yaklaşan ikili hem Shannon'ın ailesine hem de olumsuz şartlara karşı savaşmak zorundadır.

Beyin felçli olarak doğan Christy Brown, hastalığı nedeniyle hareketlerini kontrol edemez ve tekerlekli sandalyeye mahkum bir yaşam sürer. Ancak çocukluğunda, sol ayağının felçten etkilenmediğinin farkına varması hayatını değiştirecektir. Christy sol ayağını kendine verilmiş bir şans olarak görür ve azmin de yardımıyla hastalığının etkilerini yenmeye çalışır. Bu çalışmanın sonucunda ise sakat vücudunun içinde gizli olan zeka ve yazma yeteneği ortaya çıkacaktır.

1935 yılının Brooklyn’i… İrlanda’dan gelen göçmenlerin ikamet ettiği bir bölgede Margaret Mary McCourt adı verilen bir kız çocuğu dünyaya gelir. Anne-baba Angela ve Malachy çok mutludurlar. Ancak, yaşadıkları maddi zorluklar nedeniyle henüz yedi haftalıkken çocuklarını kaybeden ailenin tüm umutları bebekle beraber toprağa gömülecektir.

İrlandalı yönetmen Glenn McQuaid'in ilk uzun metraj deneyimi olan korku-komedi türündeki film in konusu 18. yüzyıl İngiltere'sinde geçiyor. Film başkahramanı olan Arthur Blake genç bir mezar hırsızıdır. Fakat bir gün yakayı ele veren genç adam kendisini ölüm cezasını çarptırılmış bulur. İnfazın gerçekleşmesinden önceki gece Arthura sadece Duffy adlı bir rahip eşlik eder... Mezarlardan çalarak sattığı bedenler arasında vampirler ve zombilerin de bulunan, hayatını dalaverelerle geçirmiş bir adamın ilginç yaşam hikâyesi anlatılmaya başlanır.

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.

In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the new reality.

İrlandalı Ria Lynch, kocası David’le ve çocuklarıyla uzun yıllardır, Tara Sokağı’nda kocaman güzel bir evde mutlu bir aile olarak yaşamaktadır. Ne var ki, bir gün kocası ona genç sevgilisinin hamile olduğunu ve ondan ayrılmak istediğini söyleyerek bu mutlu yuvayı yıkar. Amerika’da Connecticut’da yaşayan Marilyn ise, oğlunu bir motosiklet kazasında kaybettikten sonra bir türlü toparlanamamış ve hatta kocası Greg’le de arası bozulmuş acılı bir kadındır. Bu iki kadın, tesadüf eseri bir telefon konuşması yapar ve bu konuşma sırasında, evlerini değiştirip bir müddet diğerinin evinde yaşamaya karar verirler. İkisi de belki bu sayede, onları boğacak hale gelen dertlerini bir süreliğine olsun geride bırakmayı umut etmektedir. Ailelerinden ve dost çevrelerinden kopmak belki de hayatlarına yeniden uyum sağlamalarına yol açabilecektir. Böylece, Marilyn İrlanda’ya, Tara sokağındaki eve, Ria ise Amerika’ya uçarlar. Her biri diğerinin komşuları, akrabaları ve arkadaşlarıyla tanışır.

A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.

Dublin, 1912: A young woman, Eveline, of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home.

A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.

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.

Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?

The first half of Ann Wolff's BFI-funded short sees the eponymous captain (played by O'Connor) enacting the bizarre actions of the verse, chewing his beard, bouncing through a window and "frowning at a passing ceiling". In the second half, a curious interplay involving a carrot unfolds at a railway station.

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry Nation (who invented "Blake's 7" and the Daleks in Dr. Who), and Elijah Baley was played by the late Peter Cushing. It also starred John Carson John Carson as R. Daneel Olivaw and Kenneth J. Warren. The master tapes of the program were erased, however a few clips from the production have turned up in various documentaries about Isaac Asimov's work.

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

Anthology series of love stories.

An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One.

The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One and BBC1 in 1995. The series was a British–Irish co-production, made by Little Bird Films for BBC Northern Ireland in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann, with support from the Irish Film Board. The serial, set in 1846 at the beginning of Ireland's Great Famine, starred the four McGann brothers: Joe McGann, Paul McGann, Mark McGann and Stephen McGann, and was based on an original idea by Joe and Stephen McGann while researching their family's history. The title of the series comes from the term 'hanging gale', the name for a widespread practice in Ireland at the time, where a landlord would allow new tenants a six-month grace period on payment of their rent, with the expectation that the rent owed would be paid when the land's crops were harvested and sold.

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

Strumpet City was a 1980 television miniseries produced by Irish broadcaster RTÉ, based on James Plunkett's 1969 novel Strumpet City. It was RTÉ's most ambitious and expensive production to date. The script was written by Hugh Leonard, and Peter O'Toole played James Larkin, the union leader.

Roisin and Septa are two young nurses from Dublin who go to work at a hospital in Belfast. Roisin meets and falls in love with Tom, a young Protestant car mechanic. This causes a series of problems for the young couple, their families and friends.

When the man she's long loved is widowed, flinty, fortyish, but financially secure Charlotte sees her chance to end her spinsterhood at last - but then her impoverished young cousin Francie arrives.

“The Growing Summer,” on the ITV network, tomorrow (8.15) features Wendy Hiller. “The Growing Summer,” a novel for children by Noel Streatfeild, has been dramatised for television by Eric Thompson. The story, in seven episodes, is the second series presented in London Weekend Television's “Heyday Theatre". The series has been filmed in colour on location at Bantry Bay, Southern Ireland, which was Miss Streatfeild’s original setting for her book. “The Growing Summer” is a story about four children who have been sent to stay with eccentric Great Aunt Dymphna, while their parents are abroad. They are joined by the mysterious Stephan (played by Louis Selwyn). The story tells how the children's personalities are developed under the guidance of their Great Aunt, a whimsical, almost magical old lady, played by Wendy Hiller. The children are played by Hoagy Davies (Alex), Zuleika Robson (Penny), Mark Ward (Robin), and Laura Hartong (Naomi).