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Alan Gilsenan
Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His documentaries, which range from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, are dist…
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Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His documentaries, which range from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, are distinguished by intellectual rigour and creative innovation, allied to a seemingly unquenchable curiosity about history, literature, culture and society – both in Ireland but also in the wider world. His highly eclectic oeuvre of over 40 films for cinema and television also provides an invaluable compendium of reflection on Irish minds and Irish matters over four decades.
Filmography
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2026
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
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2026
We Only Want the Earth
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2024
The Days of Trees
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2024
The Irish Question
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2023
The United Irishmen
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2023
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy
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2023
The Seven Ages of Noël Browne
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2022
Ghosts of Baggotonia
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2022
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
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2020
The Great Book of Ireland
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2018
The Meeting
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2017
Meetings with Ivor
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2016
Unless
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2014
A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators
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2013
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
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2004
Timbuktu
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2002
The Ghost of Roger Casement
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2001
Zulu 9
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1997
All Souls' Day
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1988
The Road to God Knows Where
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The Yellow Bittern
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Michael D. – Power to the People
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Clannad: The Farewell / An Scaradh Deireanach
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