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ADAM & PAUL - DVD REGION 2~Adam & Paul - DVD~"Comedic genius" - Irish Independent
"Trouser-soakingly funny...side-splitting; savage, yet heart-felt... this is, quite simple, great" - In Dublin
"Adam & Paul is an unmitigated pleasure. One of the best Irish movies you are likely to have ever seen. A genuinely essential tragic comedy..." - Hot Press

Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hapless, desperate Dublin junkies, tied together by habit and necessity.

A stylized, downbeat comedy, the film follows the pair through a single day, which, like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs.

The difference today is that Adam and Paul, already near rock bottom, have finally run out of luck, credit and friends.

~ADAM & PAUL - DVD REGION 2|dvdrd010|~11200~12404~adam and paul irish movies~

AGNES BROWNE (CERT 15) REGION 2 ONLY~~The unexpected death of her husband sends a woman (Anjelica Huston) and her seven children, ages 2-14, into emotional turmoil and financial crisis in 1967 Dublin. She is forced to borrow money from a ruthless loan shark (Ray Winstone) to make ends meet. She faces her dismal existence by selling fruits and vegetables at an open air market where she spends time with a best friend (Marion O'Dwyer) who gives her encouragement. Wishing to escape her existence, if only for a short time, she dreams of finding enough money to attend an upcoming Tom Jones concert. She realizes her dream by accepting her first date with a French baker (Arno Chevrier). Her kids pool their money so she can buy a new dress. Of course, eventually the family has to face the loan shark, but this is a movie where obstacles are maybe too easily overcome. Written by John Sacksteder {jsackste@bellsouth.net}
Cert 15 Region 2,4,5 pal only Subtitles in English~AGNES BROWNE (CERT 15) REGION 2 ONLY|8250986|~11200~13558~~

ANGELA'S ASHES - DVD Region 2 Pal~~Angela's Ashes Dvd (Cert 15)

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

Region 2 Pal ~ANGELA%27S ASHES - DVD Region 2 Pal|4008|~11200~12299~~

BLOOM - Dvd All regions compatible~The Story of James Joyce's Ulysses starring Stephen Rea & Angeline Ball'Bloom' brings 'Ulysses' to the masses~The Story of James Joyce's Ulysses starring Stephen Rea & Angeline Ball'Bloom' brings 'Ulysses' to the massesBy Michael GreyOne of the highlights of New York's Irish cultural calendar is the Irish Repertory Theatre's Annual Gala Benefit. This year's event, the 11th since the founding of the theater, was held last week at the Director's Guild of America on Manhattan's West 57th Street, and, in a departure from the usual stage format, the Rep presented the New York premiere of Sean Walsh's new feature film "Bloom". Based on James Joyce's "Ulysses", and launched with exquisite timing as the centenary celebrations for Bloomsday gain momentum, "Bloom" is a labor of love for producer/director Walsh. The film was 10 years in the making, three years longer than it took Joyce to write the book. The difficulty of raising funds to make a film from a work regarded as daunting and, possibly, unfilmmable, occupied the director during this time as much as the more delicate business of adapting the revered text to celluloid-friendly format. "Ulysses" has proved notoriously difficult in the past to transfer from page to screen, and the only completed version to date remains Joseph Strick's sprawling attempt from 1967, starring Milo O'Shea in the Leopold Bloom role. Joyce's recurring use of unpunctuated stream-of-consciousness by his three principal characters lends itself more readily to a radio-drama format than a cinematic treatment, and Strick's film quickly surrenders all visual ambition as it reduces to a monotonous lineup of talking heads and voice-overs. Despite legendary film critic Pauline Kael's acerbic dismissal of Strick's film as "readings from the book, illustrated by slides?" the "Ulysses" script was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. Undaunted by Strick's failure to bring the book to life on screen, Walsh's objective in tackling the Joyce tome is a noble one: to deliver Joyce's masterpiece to a mainstream audience, by highlighting its broad comedy and robust use of Dublin language. A chart-topper on numerous 20th century fiction best-of lists compiled by critics around the globe, "Ulysses" remains a book more often bought than read, and Walsh resolved to wrestle the book from the academics and give it back to the ordinary people for whom, he feels, Joyce intended it. Walsh's project attracted a stellar cast in the form of Stephen Rea as Leopold Bloom, the peripatetic Dublin ad-canvasser, and former Commitment Angeline Ball as his salacious soprano wife, Molly. Joseph O'Conor, who delivered an impressive debut performance as a child actor in "My Left Foot" playing the young Christy Brown, takes on the role of the young writer, Stephen Dedelus, Joyce's fictional alter ego. The fourth major character, the city itself, has changed so dramatically from Joyce's 1904 that we see little more than glimpses of the built fabric of Dublin during Bloom's ambling odyssey. Walsh's efforts to externalize the interior monologues of his characters and take them out onto the cobbled streets and granite pavements of the city center are hampered by the dramatic physical changes of the Celtic Tiger years -- the camera must of necessity be blinkered to exclude the satellite dishes, plate glass office buildings, and SUV's of a 21st century city of that has ceased to be itself and looks more like any other city, anywhere else. Clocking in at a tidy running time of under two hours, "Bloom" is a lean distillation of the high points of the unwieldy text, and should fulfill Walsh's ambition to spur Joyce-dodgers to take the book down from the shelf, dust it off, and read it right to the end this time. Walsh is still looking for a U.S. theater distribution deal, but the film will be available on video and DVD from MTI Home Video beginning Aug. 24. To commemorate the Bloomsday centenary, screenings will be held in Boston, Chicago and Sarasota, Fla., on June 16. And if you miss it this year, "Bloom" will undoubtedly make a reappearance next year and every year thereafter around mid-June, as a perennial component of the Bloomsday celebrations. Irish Echo June 2004~BLOOM-DVD MULTI REGION|blm01|~11200~9325~Bloom~

BLOODY SUNDAY(Cert 15)~Bloody Sunday~ A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972. Documentary-style drama showing the events that lead up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more.
Region 2 only Running time 100 mins
Cert 15
Starring James Nesbitt , Gerard Mc Sorley and Directed by Paul Greengrass ~Bloody Sunday(Cert 15)|dvdrd0174|~11200~11168~Bloody Sunday~

BORSTAL BOY(Cert 15)~Borstal Boy~ Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan, is befriended as a teenager in a British labor camp by a liberal warden. Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as "the enemy," a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.
Cert 15 Region 2 only running time 92 mins ~Borstal Boy(Cert 15)|dvdrd013|~11200~11177~Borstal Boy~

DANCING AT LUGHNASA -DVD~Dancing At Lughnasa~Dancing At Lughnana
A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Each of the five women, different from the other in temperament and capability, is the emotional support system, although at times reluctantly, for each other, with the eldest assuming the role of a 'somewhat meddling' overseer. But then into this comes an elderly brother, a priest too senile to perform his clerical functions, who has "come home to die" after a lifetime in Africa; as well, there also arrives the boy's father, riding up on a motorcycle, only to announce that he's on his way to Spain to fight against Franco. Nevertheless, life goes on for the five sisters, although undeniably affected by the presence of the two men, they continue to cope as a close-knit unit... until something happens that disrupts the very fabric of that cohesiveness beyond repair.

Cast includes Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Brid Brennan, sophie Thompson & Rhys Ifans among others

Running time 90 mins (Cert PG) Region 2 only Language English~DANCING AT LUGHNASA -DVD|DVDX020|~11200~11986~DANCING AT LUGHNASA~

DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE - DVD Region 2 only~Darby O'Gill and The Little People - DVD Region 2 only~Adapted from the stories of H. T. Kavanagh, this is the definitive Leprechaun movie for it reveals their customs and underground world. Of course, the predictable pot of gold dances in and out of the grasp of our hero, Darby. But his wit pulls him through against the mischievous jabs of the leprechauns. Despite his lovable nature, Darby is quite the lay-about. The Irish love of storytelling is his only excuse.

English- French and German Cert(G) REGION 2 ONLY WILL NOT PLAY IN USA 87 mins long approx~DARBY O%27GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE - DVD|bua0016501|~11200~8831~Darby O%27Gill and the Little People~

THE GENERAL - REGION 2 DVD~~John Boorman's "The General" is based on the story of Martin Cahill, a notorious Dublin gangster who was the mastermind behind a series of daring robberies that stunned Ireland in the 1980s. John Boorman ("Deliverance," "The Emerald Forest") won the Best Director Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the film introduces Brendan Gleeson ("I Went Down") in a dazzling star-making performance as Cahill. "The General," which also reunites Boorman with his "Deliverance" star Jon Voight, who plays the Irish policeman determined to bring Cahill down, will open in New York on December 18th, followed by a national theatrical release through Sony Pictures Classics. Also in the cast are Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Angeline Ball.
Region 2 Dvd
Cert 15
English Subtitles
119 mins aprox~THE GENERAL - REGION 2 DVD|D016840|~11200~13656~~

THE INFORMER DVD-( REGION 2 DVD PAL)~~Dublin, 1922. Gypo Nolan, strong but none too bright, has been ousted from the rebel organization and is starving. When he finds that his equally destitute sweetheart Katie has been reduced to prostitution, he succumbs to temptation and betrays his former comrade Frankie to the British authorities for a 20 pound reward. In the course of one gloomy, foggy night, guilt and retribution inexorably close in... Written by Rod Crawford {puffinus@u.washington.edu}
Region 2 Pal DVD
Cert PG ~THE INFORMER DVD- ( REGION 2 DVD PAL)|8243456|~11200~13654~~

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER-DVD~~In the name of the Father -Dvd Region 2 only~IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER|8200252|~11200~11205~~

INTERMISSION(Cert 15)~Intermission~A variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence. Plot Synopsis: Intermission is an urban love story about people adrift and their convoluted journeys in the search for some kind of love. When the desperately insecure and emotionally inarticulate John (Murphy) breaks up with Deirdre (Macdonald) to 'give her a little test' his plan backfires leaving her broken-hearted and him alone and miserable. Through chance and coincidence, their break-up triggers a roller coaster ride of interweaving escapades in the lives of everyone around them. Intermission presents a slice of life, the passage between breaking up and making up, exploring how our lives intersect, and the power we all possess to affect the lives of those around us.Starring Colin Farrell, Kerry Condon, Johnny Thompson, Emma Bolger and directed by John Crowley Running time 105 mins region 2 only~INTERMISSION (REGION 2 ONLY ) Cert 15|dvdx001|~11200~11155~Intermission~

MAN ABOUT DOG- REGION 2 PAL~Man About Dog~Man About Dog (15PG) Region 2 Only Will not play in USA only on PC DVD Players Dual layer Format

Directed by Paddy Breathnach, starring Allen Leech, Tom Jordan Murphy, Ciaran Nolan, Sean McGinley, Fionnula Flanagan and Pat Shortt.Three luckless Belfast chancers claim a greyhound named Cerberus after doing a favour for dodgy bookmaker J.P. McCallion (Sean McGinley). It's not long before they find out that they have, in fact, been sold a pup, or at least, a racing dog that can't run straight. Soon back in heavy debt to the same bookie they got the dog from, they set off to the South, cut their losses by selling the dog to some gypsies, but realise too late that Cerberus is a natural hare coarser, good enough to net them a tidy sum at the biggest hare coursing event in Ireland at Clonmel, and get one over on McMallion at the same time. So they steal the mutt back and hit the road to Clonmel with the bookie and gypsies on their tail and out for their blood. Sharply scripted by Pearse Elliot and with a cast of relative unknowns proving themselves as talents to look out for, director Paddy Breathnach's fifth feature is a broad, ballsy and breakneck comedy that never lets up.~MAN ABOUT DOG (CERT 15)|D099981|~11200~10258~Man About Dog~

THE MATCHMAKER - DVD (REGION 2 PAL)~~As she does in The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Janeane Garofalo proves she's a capable leading lady--beautiful, charming, self-effacing, and what used to be referred to as sharp as a tack. Garofalo plays Marcy, aide to dim Massachusetts senator McGlory (Jay O. Sanders). Denis Leary is appropriately slimy as a fellow aide. The senator and Nick dispatch Marcy to the remote (and fictitious) Irish town of Ballinagra, where she's supposed to unearth relatives to use in the senator's PR campaign. Along the way, Marcy not only encounters the eccentric locals, but finds herself in the maelstrom of the town's annual matchmaking festival. The single Marcy inadvertently catches the eye of the movie's eponymous matchmaker Dermot (a captivating Milo O'Shea). Dermot senses sparks between Marcy and the equally cynical, recently returned local boy, Sean (David O'Hara), once a successful journalist who's returned home to work on a book. The intimacies of the small town, the relationships between the locals, and the dialogue are credible and engaging. Look for beautiful cinematography and music, too. Also notable is the movie's ability to convey the feel of a foreign film while injecting humor that's both sarcastically American and yet Irish in trademark. --N.F. Mendoza

Region 2 dvd
Cert 15
Subtitles English ,French,German,Czech,Dutch,Hungarian & Polish~THE MATCHMAKER - DVD (REGION 2 PAL)|8235941|~11200~13658~~

MAUREEN O'HARA DVD BOX SET 6 DVD'S~MAUREEN O'HARA BOX SET~A unique and beautiful box set of six Dvd's- The Quiet Man , Rio Grande , The Rare Breed, Our Man in Havanna, Against All Odds and Lady Godiva~MAUREEN O%27HARA DVD BOX SET 6 DVD%27S|8236744|~11200~11456~MAUREEN O%27HARA BOX SET~

MICKEY BO & ME~MICKEY BO & ME~MICKEY BO & ME (CERT 15)Set in a divided Belfast in 1970, this is the story of two boys whose friendship breaks down the barriers. Based on Owen McCafferty's acclaimed play, it tells the tale of two kindred spirits obsessed with 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and how this infatuation leads them from fantasies into petty crime. The two boys play at becoming their heroes, gaining the courage against all odds, for an escape to Australia.This heart-warming comedy introduces the two pint-sized stars of the story: John Joe McNeill and Niall Wright in their first big-screen appearance.~MICKEY BO & ME-DVD (REGION 2,4 PAL)|8238017|~11200~11079~MICKEY BO AND ME~

MICHAEL COLLINS-DVD PAL~~Neil Jordan's depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins, the 'Lion of Ireland', who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish Free State (Eire) in 1921After the disastrous defeat of Irish rebels by superior British forces during the Easter Week rebellion of 1916, Michael Collins develops new strategies for the independence of Ireland. His tactics include what is now recognized as urban guerrilla tactics and organized assassinations of G-Men, those Irish who work as informers for the British, and later members of British intelligence. Although Collins is conflicted about the necessity of this violent course, by 1921 the British are willing to negotiate and Sinn Fein President Eamon de Valera sends a reluctant Collins to London to negotiate a settlement. When Collins returns with a compromise of a divided Ireland and an Irish Free State, not a Republic, he is vilified by de Valera and repudiated by lifelong friend Harry Boland after Boland learns that his girlfriend Kitty Kiernan is in love with Collins, not him. Collins is now faced with civil war as he struggles against those who insist on complete freedom for all of Ireland.Stars Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson Ian Hart and many more.

Cert 12 Region 2 pal Language English Subtitles English 127 mins long ~MICHAEL COLLINS-DVD PAL Region 2 only|d014205|~11200~12319~~

MY LEFT FOOT-DVD~My Left Foot~My Left Foot
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to write with.In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life. Later, through the help of his strong-willed mother, a dedicated teacher, and his own courage and determination, Christy not only learns to grapple with life's simple physical tasks and complex psychological pains, but he also develops into a brilliant painter, poet and author

Sterring Daniel Day Lewis, Brenda Fricker & Ray McAnally among others Running Time 98 MINS Region 2 Pal ~MY LEFT FOOT-DVD Region 2 Pal|dvdxd021|~11200~11983~MY LEFT FOOT~

ONCE (Region 2 only) Cert 15~~Once is an Academy Award winning 2007 Irish musical film written and directed by John Carney. Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard (of popular Irish rock band The Frames) and Markéta Irglová as struggling musicians. Collaborators prior to making the film, Hansard and/or Irglová composed and performed all but one of the original songs in the movie.[1]The film has received awards[2] and extremely enthusiastic reviews.[3][4] Shot for only 130,000 Euros ($160,000),[5] it was very successful,[6] earning substantial per-screen box office averages in the United States.[7] One of the songs in the film received an Academy Award for best original song ("Falling Slowly") and received a Grammy nomination for best soundtrack in 2008
Cert 15 Region 2 Pal English Subtitles English Running Time 80 mins~Once- The Film (Region 2 only) Cert 15|icon20124|~11200~13568~~

RAT-DVD~Rat - DVD~"He might eat maggots and live in a cage but he's still our Dad"

Pete Postlethwaite (Brassed Off, In the Name of the Father) is Hubert Flynn, Dublin bread delivery man, who lives his pint of Guinness, his bet on the horses and his wife Conchita, in that order. So when he comes home from the pub one evening and changes into a RAT, Conchita is slow to forgive.

Conchita (played to perfection by Imelda Staunton - Shakespeare in Love, Peter's friends), at first resists her family's eccentric plans for Hubert, but when an opportunist ghost-writer knocks on the door and proposes to put their story in a book and then a film of the book and a book of the film and riches beyond her dreams...she is tempted, so setting the stage for a series of bizarre and comical adventures for Hubert the rat and his family.

RAT is the tale of family values, little furry folk, and one man's struggle to regain his humanity...literally!~RAT - DVD|8228080|~11200~11987~Pete Postlethwaite, Imelda Staunton, Rat, Irish film~

RYAN'S DAUGHTER-DVD (REGION 2 PAL CERT 15)~~World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her father's pub and Rosy was tending bar for the first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrive at Ryan's pub. Is it Rosy who betrays them to the British? Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin's advice? Is the pivotal role that of the village idiot who is mute? Written by Dale O'Connor
Cert 15 Region 2 pal~RYAN%27S DAUGHTER-DVD (REGION 2 PAL CERT 15)|d056113|~11200~13650~~

SAOIRSE?- THE IRISH STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDANCE 1919-1922~~Following on from the successful DVD release of Mise Éire, comes the second film in the George Morrison series. The Gael Linn film SAOIRSE? (freedom?) depicts the Irish struggle for independence in the years 1919 to 1922 as recorded by the newsfilm camera operators of the time and shows the part played in the political events of those eventful years by leaders on all sides, such as Eamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Richard Mulcahy, Tomás MacCurtain, Terence MacSwiney, Sir James Craig, King George V, David Lloyd George, Lord Birkenhead and Winston Churchill. Includes Seán Ó Riada's digitally remastered film music on separate CD, including previously unreleased material. Tracks 1-14 feature music frst issued by Gael Linn on the extended play record Saoirse? (GL1, 1961). Tracks 15-46 present an overview of Seán Ó Riada's entire soundtrack for the film Saoirse?

Music Composed by Sean Ó'Riada

Tracks
Saoirse? : ceol tosaigh / opening music Stailc ocrais Mhuinseo / The Mountjoy hunger strike Stailc ocrais Thraolach Mhic Suibhne / Terence MacSwiney hunger strike Sochraid Thraolach Mhic Suibhne / The funeral of Terence MacSwiney Dubhchrónaigh / Black and Tans Síniú an tSos Cogaidh / Signing the Truce Filleann Éamon de Valéra ó Londain / Eamon de Valera returns from London Turas Éamon de Valéra ar an Chlár / Eamon de Valera on inspection tour in Clare Scrios láithreacha tionscail / Industrial centres targeted Saoradh na bpríosúnach : Cill Mhaighneann / Prisoners freed : Kilmainham Cogadh Carad! / Civil War! Éamon de Valéra : feachtas frith-Chonartha / Eamon de Valera : the anti-Treaty campaign Léigear na gCeithre Cúirteanna / The siege of the Four Courts Saoirse? : ceol deiridh / closing music Saoirse? : ceol tosaigh / opening music Saoirse? : 1919 bliain na cinniúna / January 1919 Léirscrios ar Mhainistir Fhear Maí / The sack of Fermoy Stailc ocrais Mhuinseo / The Mountjoy hunger strike Thomás Mac Curtáin: Sochraid / Tomás MacCurtain: Funeral Cath Mhuinseo bainte : píobaireacht (Tommy Reck) / Mountjoy battle won : uilleann pipes (Tommy Reck) Stailc na mbóithre iarainn / The railroad strike Thraolach Mac Suibhne: gabháil / Terence MacSwiney: arrest Stailc ocrais Thraolach Mhic Suibhne / Terence MacSwiney hunger strike Scaoileadh Sheáin Uí Threasaigh / The shooting of Sen Treacy Filleadh Thraolach Mhic Suibhne ar Chorcaigh / Terence MacSwiney returned to Cork Sochraid Thraolach Mhic Suibhne / The funeral of Terence MacSwiney Saoirse? : Bearna Bhaoil Dubhchrónaigh / Black and Tans Caoimhín de Barra / Kevin Barry Léirscrios Ghránaird / The sack of Granard Loisceadh Chorcaí / The burning of Cork Fiosrúcháin na Croise Báine / White Cross investigations Síniú an tSos Cogaidh / Signing the Truce Filleann Éamon de Valéra ó Londain / Eamon de Valera returns from London Dáil Éireann 1921 Turas Éamon de Valéra ar an Chlár / Eamon de Valera on inspection tour in Clare Saoradh na bpríosúnach: Cill Mhaighneann / Prisoners freed : Kilmainham Ceapachán an Rialtais Shealadaigh / The Provisional Government of Ireland Imíonn Fear Ionad an Rí / The Viceroy departs Éamon de Valéra : feachtas frith-Chonartha / Eamon de Valera : the anti-Treaty campaign Micheál Ó Coileáin : feachtas ar son an Chonartha / Michael Collins: the pro-Treaty campaign Ó Gríofa i Sligeach / Griffith in Sligo Liam Ó Maoilíosa i mBaile Uí Bhódáin / Liam Mellowes at Bodenstown Léigear na gCeithre Cúirteanna / The siege of the Four Courts Cath i Sráid Uí Chonaill agus ar lean / The fighting in OConnell Street Saoirse? : ceol deiridh / closing music

Extra featuresSean Ó Riada film music on a seperate CD including previousely unreleased material.Premiere of Soairse? at the Regal Cinema, Dublin 20 Oct 1961 as seen on Gael Linn newsreel Amharc Éireann
Cert G Plays all regions with English Subtitles ~Saoirse?- The Irish Struggle for Independence 1919-1922|GLVD02|~11200~12538~saoirse irish struggle for independence~

THE MIGHTY CELT- DVD~THE MIGHTY CELT~THE MIGHTY CELT (15)Starring: Robert Carlyle, Gillian Anderson, Ken Stott, Tyrone McKennaDirected by: Pearse ElliottYoung Donal (Tyrone McKenna), growing up alone with his mother Kate (Gillian Anderson) in Belfast, works after school for Good Joe (Ken Stott), a local greyhound trainer. As Donal's talent with dogs becomes apparent he strikes a deal with his boss to own a promising greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if he can train it to win three successive races.Meanwhile each of their lives is profoundly affected by the reappearance of O (Robert Carlyle), an enigmatic figure from the past. As Donal becomes friendly with O, Kate warily lets him re-establish contact with her, despite the growing tension between him and Good Joe. But when Good Joe goes back on his deal, Donal is forced to learn some harsh lessons about life and risks losing The Mighty Celt.REGION 2 ONLY
~THE MIGHTY CELT- (REGION 2 ONLY )|MTD5235|~11200~11094~THE MIGHTY CELT~

THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELAND- DVD~THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELAND- DVD~THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELANDWhile the rest of the male population of Belfast are firing nothing but blanks, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) is blessed with "tadpoles on speed that could impregnate a stone".Realising that there's cash to be made out of his fellow man's infertility, this 24-year-old virgin transforms himself overnight into Belfast's very own one-man sperm bank.Business is booming until Eamonn is sucked into the "troubles" and finds his crown jewels dangling in the fires of political distrust and religious intolerance.Amongst the superb cast are some of the cream of Irish talent, including the ever popular James Nesbitt as the local Orange hardman.~THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELAND- DVD|ppa1696rd|~11200~11416~THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELAND- DVD~

THE QUIET MAN - DVD~The Quiet Man~One of John Ford's most cherished projects, THE QUIET MAN took years to finance but became one of his greatest box-office successes and an enduringly beloved classic. John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him by returning to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. He purchases his birthplace from its current owner, enraging the wealthy and bellicose Red Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen), who had designs on the property. On arriving at his cottage, Thornton finds it being swept out by Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara), a redheaded vision from whom he steals a not completely unwelcome kiss. After engaging in a subterfuge involving a horse race, some of the locals manage to get the disgruntled Red Will to allow his sister to be courted by the American. But the courtship ritual of the village is only the first of many local practices that the bewildered Thornton must endure if he is to have Mary Kate. Wayne gives a surprisingly nuanced performance as the fish out of water, and he is perfectly matched with the radiantly rambunctious O'Hara. The rest of the cast is splendid as well, and the lush color photography garnered an Academy Award for Winston Hoch. John Ford also won an Oscar for his directing, and it's impossible not to be charmed by the artistry with which he weaves his rollicking, robust tale.

Region 2 DVD PAL will not play on NTSC machines ~THE QUIET MAN -DVD REGION 2 PAL|8241814|~11200~11574~~

THE VAN-DVD( Region 2 Pal only)~~The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown Trilogy' depicts the hilarious yet poignant adventures of Bimbo. Upon being fired from his job at the bakery, Bimbo and his best mate go into business for themselves and purchase a chipper (a fish and chips van); but will the pressures of financial success sour their friendship forever?
CERT 18 (Region 2Pal only) ~THE VAN-DVD|0625801000|~11200~12354~RODDY DOYLE THE VAN~

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY- DVD (Region 2 only)~The wind that shakes the Barley~Set in Cork, Ireland in 1920, Damien abandons a career as a doctor after seeing a friend of his murdered by a British soldier and joins his brother Teddy in an Irish Republican Army unit in order to defeat the occupying British force. After a violent struggle, the two sides agree a treaty to end the conflict. However, civil war erupts and families and friendships are stretched to the limit and Damien and Teddy find themselves on opposing sides as Damien views the treaty as a sell-out that fails to bring all of Ireland under Irish control. British director Ken Loach (KES, LAND AND FREEDOM) became the 59th winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes with this emotional drama about the Irish Civil War of the 1920s and the film features superb performances from a young Irish cast.
Cert 15 Running time 122 mins Language English
~THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY- DVD|P919401002|~11200~12069~the wind that shakes the barley~

TRISTAN & ISOLDE-DVD~Tristan and Isolde~A screen adaption of an opera composed by Richard Wagner in 1856-9. In line with the story of star crossed lovers, the original score of the final scene of 'Tristan und Isolde' is played in the final scene of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). Language English 120 Minutes long Cert 12 Region 2 only~TRISTAN & ISOLDE(Cert 12)Region 2 Pal|2867001000|~11200~11839~Tristan & Isolde~

TURNING GREEN- DVD REGION 2 PAL~~Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to America. One lucky weekend in London, James discovers pornography and, desperate for cash, he decides to sell them back in Ireland. His success spreads wildly. After finding a possible way home, he must decide where home really is, and finds that one's place in the world is all a state of mind.
Region 2 Pal
Cert 15
86 Mins
English Subtitles~TURNING GREEN- DVD REGION 2 PAL|BHE015DVD|~11200~13660~~

WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY-DVD~~The title has a romantic comedy resonance (`When Harry Met Sally') and, true, this is a romantic comedy, but it's different – Irish, in fact. It has an edgy character that seems to say it's just that little bit more dangerous to laugh here. The opening scene is of a man in pouring rain lying face down in a Dublin gutter and a voice over saying `it all started six months ago'. Brendan (Peter McDonald), history and English schoolteacher and film buff, best described as afraid of life, meets Trudy (Fiona Montgomery), blonde, bouncing, full of life, and Brendan is swept along. Trudy, however, has a secret…at first Brendan thinks she might be the Rathmines castrator, but she turns out to be a professional thief. Naturally Brendan gets involved, and the climactic caper is an attempt to steal computers from Brendan's school, which Brendan justifies on luddite grounds - the kids need to learn how to think without machines – a chalk is the only technology a good teacher needs, says Brendan.Despite the rain, this film, written by Roddy Doyle and directed by first-time director Kieron Walsh, is really a very sunny piece. As Brendan becomes more and more distracted, his elderly headmaster summons him in for a talk, only to tell him not to worry about the complaints. The spirit of rebellion infects Brendan's mother, who starts to use words you don't expect Irish mothers to use. Brendan's sister and husband (`middle class and proud of it') turn out to be a bit kinky as well.
Region 2 Dvd Pal
Cert 15
90 Minutes
English subtitles~WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY-DVD|MP1120|~11200~13652~~