This is chronology of films produced in Ireland:
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1910 | A Lad from Old Ireland | Sidney Olcott | Sidney Olcott and Gene Gauntier | Drama | |
1911 | The Colleen Bawn | Sidney Olcott and Gene Gauntier | Sidney Olcott | Drama | |
Rory O'More | Sidney Olcott | Jack J. Clark and Gene Gauntier | Rebel drama | ||
1914 | For Ireland's Sake | Sidney Olcott | Gene Gauntier, Jack J. Clark and Sidney Olcott | Rebel drama | |
Ireland a Nation | Walter MacNamara | Barry O'Brien, P J Bourke, Fred O'Donovan, Barney Magee | Rebel drama | Expanded version produced in 1920. | |
1915 | Regeneration | Raoul Walsh | Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, Carl Harbaugh, James A. Marcus | Irish immigrant drama | Often cited as one of the first full length gangster films |
1916 | O'Neil of the Glen | Fred O'Donovan | J. M. Kerrigan, Brian Magowan, Nora Clancy | Romance | |
1917 | When Love Came To Gavin Burke | Fred O'Donovan | Fred O'Donovan, Nora Clancy, Oonah Halpin, Brian Magowan, Valentine Roberts | Melodrama | |
1918 | Knocknagow | Fred O'Donovan | Brian Magowan, Fred O'Donovan, Arthur Shields, Brenda Burke, Kathleen Murphy, Cyril Cusack | Melodrama |
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1920 | Willy Reilly and his Colleen Bawn | John MacDonagh | Brian Magowan, Frances Alexander, John MacDonagh | historical drama | Second and final major film of the Film Company of Ireland |
In the Days of St Patrick | Norman Whitten | Ira Ellen, Vernon Whitten, Gilbert Green, Alice Cardinall, Dermot McCarthy | historical drama | ||
1922 | Cruiskeen Lawn | John McDonagh | Tom Moran | Producer: Norman Whitten | |
Casey's Millions | John McDonagh | Barrett MacDonnell, Chris Sylvester, Jimmy O'Dea | Comedy | Producer: Norman Whitten | |
1925 | Blarney | Marcel De Sano | Ralph Graves, Paulette Duval, Renée Adorée | Comedy | |
1926 | Irish Destiny | George Dewhurst | Brian Magowan, Paddy Dunne Cullinan | War | Love story set in the Irish War of Independence; includes footage of actual fighting |
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1934 | Man of Aran | Robert Flaherty | Colman "Tiger" King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane | Documentary | |
1934 | Ireland: 'The Emerald Isle' | Ruth FitzPatrick | James A. FitzPatrick (narrator) | Short Documentary/Travelogue | |
1935 | Guests of the Nation | Denis Johnston | Barry Fitzgerald, Cyril Cusack, Shelah Richards | Drama | |
Oidhche Sheanchais | Robert J. Flaherty | Seáinín Tom Ó Dioráin | Storytelling | First Irish language sync sound film Lost until 2012 | |
1936 | The Dawn | Thomas Cooper | Brian O'Sullivan | War drama | |
The Luck of the Irish | Donovan Pedelty | Richard Hayward, Niall MacGinnis, Kay Walsh | Drama | ||
Irish and Proud of It | Donovan Pedelty | Richard Hayward, Dinah Sheridan and Liam Gaffney | Musical comedy | ||
1937 | Kathleen Mavourneen | Norman Lee | Sally O'Neil, Tom Burke, Jack Daly and Sara Allgood | Musical drama | also known as Kathleen |
Rose of Tralee | Oswald Mitchell | Binkie Stuart, Kathleen O'Regan and Fred Conyngham | Musical | ||
1938 | Men of Ireland | Richard Bird | Brian O'Sullivan | Drama |
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1948 | My Hands Are Clay | Lionel Tomlinson | Bernardette Leahy | Drama | |
1949 | You Can't Fool an Irishman | Alfred Travers | Tommy Duggan | comedy |
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1951 | The Hills of Ireland | Harry Dugan | Pat O'Brien (narrator) | documentary travelogue | |
Return to Glennascaul | Hilton Edwards | Orson Welles | horror/ short | also known as Orson Welles' Ghost Story | |
1952 | The Quiet Man | John Ford | John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald | comedy | |
1953 | Fintona, A Study of Housing Discrimination | documentary short | Irish Government-sponsored film alleging anti-Catholic housing discrimination in Fintona, Co.Tyrone. The first 3 minutes of this film is voiceover with no moving images. | ||
1957 | Pretty Polly | Tony Inglis | Noel Purcell | short | |
Professor Tim | Henry Cass | Bill Foley | |||
The Rising of the Moon | John Ford | Tyrone Power (narrator), Cyril Cusack, Noel Purcell and Denis O'Dea | comedy/ drama | Three vignettes based on short stories illustrating rural Irish life: The Majesty of the Law, A Minute's Wait and 1921 | |
1959 | Home Is the Hero | Fielder Cook | Walter Macken | drama romance | Entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival |
Mise Éire | George Morrison | Liam Budhlaeir (narrator) | Documentary | Chronicles Irish history from 1890s-1918, including the 1916 Easter Rising. It was the first feature length Irish language film. | |
Shake Hands with the Devil | Michael Anderson | James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter and Glynis Johns | historical drama | Portrays the Irish War of Independence | |
Broth of a Boy | George Pollock | Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn, Eddie Golden and Godfrey Quigley | comedy | ||
This Other Eden | Muriel Box | Audrey Dalton, Leslie Phillips, Niall MacGinnis and Geoffrey Golden | Comedy-drama | ||
Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Robert Stevenson | Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea | children's |
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1961 | Saoirse? | George Morrison | Liam Budhlaeir (narrator) | Documentary | The follow-up to Mise Éire (1959) |
1963 | Dementia 13 | Francis Ford Coppola | William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee | Horror-thriller | also known as The Haunted and the Hunted. Produced by Roger Corman |
1967 | Rocky Road to Dublin | Peter Lennon | Seán Ó Faoláin, Conor Cruise O'Brien, John Huston and Father Michael Cleary | Documentary | Shown at Cannes festival, shunned in Ireland |
Ulysses | Joseph Strick | Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roëves, T. P. McKenna | Drama | Adaptation of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses | |
1969 | Sinful Davey | John Huston | John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Fionnula Flanagan and Anjelica Huston | Drama, Comedy |
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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2021 | Deadly Cuts | Rachel Carey | Angeline Ball, Ericka Roe, Shauna Higgins, Lauren Larkin, Victoria Smurfit, Aidan McArdle, Thommas Kane Byrne | Comedy | |
2021 | You Are Not My Mother | Kate Dolan | Hazel Doupe, Carolyn Bracken, Irene Craigie, Paul Reid | Psychological Horror | |
2021 | The Green Sea | Randall Plunkett | Fantasy | ||
2021 | My Little Pony: A New Generation | Robert Cullen, José L. Ucha | Vanessa Hudgens, Kimiko Glenn, James Marsden, Sofia Carson, Liza Koshy, Ken Jeong, Elizabeth Perkins, Jane Krakowski, Phil LaMarr, Michael McKean | Adventure Comedy | Co-produced with the US and Canada |
2022 | The Quiet Girl | Colm Bairéad | Drama | ||
2022 | Spears | Gerard Lough | Aidan O'Sullivan, Bobby Calloway, Nigel Brennan | Mystery / thriller | |
2022 | Wendell & Wild | Henry Selick | Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross, Ving Rhames, James Hong | stop motion-animated horror comedy | |
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