Exhibitions & Events

Edna O’Brien’s famous rite-of-passage story is brilliantly adapted for the screen by director Desmond Davis who succeeds in presenting each little act of rebellion and stolen moment of innocent passion as something exhilaratingly new.

A fascinating documentary about one of Ireland’s last missionary nuns who lived and taught in Japan for 75 years before returning home.

Based on the eponymous book by James Joyce, this film takes place in turn-of-the-century Dublin, at an epiphany feast vibrant with food and spirit.

Capturing the turmoil and aftermath of the Easter Rising, these nine short films were commissioned by the Irish Film Board to commemorate 1916. Young Irish film talent at its best.

1980’s Dublin. Boy meets girl, girl unimpressed, boy starts band! A feel-good musical preceded by the Oscar-winning short film ‘Stutterer’

Open to all, this conference explores the influence of Paris on the evolution of Irish political and cultural thought up to the 1916 Rising and the birth of the Irish Free State. It closes with a screening of the landmark documentary ‘1916’ shown on RTE television.

With director Mark Noonan
A touching film about dealing with life after a mother’s death

One night can change the course of a life

A light-hearted romantic comedy for Leap Day 2016!

An award-winning documentary that explores life, death and the afterlife. Often humorous, always affecting, it will stay with you forever

This offbeat comedy and unconventional love story delights in the hilarity of everyday life

A gripping film that follows a small island fisherman who embarked on a European campaign to try and regain his ancestors’ right to fish the seas around Donegal

An evening of music and film with Lioba Petrie performing her new score for short sci-fi film La Jetée and Fiona Hallinan launching Heterodyne/Paris, a site-specific musical score created for the ‘Périphérique’ ring road

Through his Good Vibrations record label, subversive punk legend Terri Hooley galvanized a compelling voice of resistance in 1970s and 80s Belfast

Filmmaker in residence, Eoin Heaney presents Turning.

The Guard is a comedy-thriller set on the west coast of Ireland.