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- In rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.
- In the not too distant future, a drifter travelling through the desert discovers the largest gold nugget ever found. He must guard it from thieves amid harsh conditions and wild dogs while waiting for his partner to return.
- A young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids is beckoned to adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers.
- The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoelaces, and underwear of their captured opponents, in order to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents' buttons, etc.; sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene, about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them, and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy.
- An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless and have sent their heavies into town to keep the locals quiet.
- A widow who has given up on life becomes convinced that a stray dog is the reincarnation of her Hurling-loving husband.
- A powerful story of the relationship between father and son, John and Eamon Doyle. It is set in rural Ireland during the 1950's, a period of mass emigration and social change. Young Irish emigrants, on arriving in America, have been enlisted and sent to fight in the Korean War.
- Ireland, 1845. As the famine progresses, a fisherman unable to protect his family is subsumed by darkness until a helpless little girl saves him from despair.
- A woman's body is found under the waters of a lake in the countryside, and the arrival of a Detective from Dublin is the last thing Peggy, the owner of Casey's Pub, needs as she tries to save her business and her family.
- When Tomás returns to his remote island holiday home, he discovers that his reclusive wife and child have vanished. With nowhere to turn and a storm approaching, he is forced to place his trust in the small community's lone retired police officer, Labhaoise, to investigate. As the search takes an unexpected turn, some uncomfortable truths are revealed. Meanwhile, the storm looms ever closer.
- Born in a remote village on Ireland's west coast, Joe Heaney conquered the shyness of his youth to become one of his country's most revered traditional vocalists, as chronicled in this lyrical biopic.
- Follow a student of nursing palliative care, who is plagued by a trauma from her past that has a disorienting effect on her present, her relationship, her career and her ability to function.
- When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging and discovers that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.
- When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless recluse John Cunliffe discovers their land to be extremely valuable, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of trust, vengeance and romance for the first time.
- Molly is a ten-year-old girl who believes that if she learns to play the fiddle like her dad and wins the All-Ireland Music championship, her father will wake from his coma.
- Mise Eire tells of events in Ireland leading up to, during, and immediately after the 1916 Easter Rising, extensively using original footage such as newsreels from the time.
- A group of men reunite for a friend's funeral.
- A young musician with a tragic past is crippled in a car accident and given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent, avant-garde circus.
- This a story about an obsessive hatred that started as a case of jealous rivalry between two young sisters, resulting in a broken heart as Neil got the upper hand on her sister, Caitríona, stealing away from her the man with whom she was in love. Caitríona never forgave her sister, nor would she forgive her as long as she lived, or indeed after that. The hate she has for her sister has consumed her to the extent that it guides her every step, in this world, and in the next!
- A lifeboat crew discovers millions of euros worth of drugs on a fishing boat off the coast of Ireland.
- Part poem, part elegy, drawing on a rich legacy of world cinema to dive into our collective memory and shine a light on the trauma we all share as descendants of the atomic age.
- A poitín maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí in Connemara in the west of Ireland.
- Miles Butler lives an uneventful life with his girlfriend until he discovers the body of his landlord in a neighbouring apartment. The tragedy of this moment makes a deep impression on Miles. His curiosity is aroused when a beautiful stranger moves in, and his fascination with the vacant apartment develops from obsession to psychosis.
- A cinematic exploration into the meaning of emancipation.
- Documents the period 1919-1922 in Ireland's history, covering the war of independence against the British and the civil war that followed using archive footage from the time, including original newsreel footage.
- Photographer Chris Rodmell's documented Inis Meáin 50 years ago. He painted a portrait of ordinary yet extraordinary lives. Chris now returns, bridging the past and present. The documentary immerses us in the island's community.
- An examination of the making of the landmark Irish film Mise Eire and the political and national context of its release.
- He was at the centre of a bloody battle and founded a monastery that became a beacon of civilisation in the Dark Ages. He's even said to have taken on the Loch Ness Monster. But who was Colmcille, the Irish abbot, known in Scotland as St. Columba
- Fifty years ago, Nigeria was embroiled in a brutal civil war. Irish missionaries defied a cynical international cartel to save millions from starvation, becoming international media celebrities in the process.
- Explores the role Irish soldiers played in the American Civil War.
- Why is it that stories of sexual violence against women have never been part of the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil War?
- On April 9th, 2020, nearly 1,000 Irish Debenhams workers, most of them women, received a generic email telling them their jobs were gone. The longest-ever Irish industrial dispute began.
- An Englishman living in a 10 x 5 foot hovel on a remote Irish island, died suddenly, leaving years of diaries and notebooks. No-one on the island really knew who The Stranger was?
- The incredible story of the Rasputin of the Bronx - Irishman Mike Malloy who survived 40 attempts on his vagrant life in prohibition era New York.
- A film about the handful of streets around the Cowgate in Edinburgh which have long housed a proud Irish diaspora. A film about folk music and its power to connect people.
- Embark on a magical journey through the stunning landscapes of the west of Ireland with Tommy Tiernan as The Wanderer, leading an unforgettable celebration of music, dance, and theatre. Featuring music by Bill Whelan's and many others
- Feature length documentary which challenges many of the popular myths about the 1798 Rebellion. "It reveals the central role of Presbyterians in the United Irishmen and the strong Catholic involvement in the crown forces who suppressed the Rebellion". The programme features dramatic re-enactments of some of the key skirmishes. "An exploration of the 1798 rebellion which relates the events of two hundred years before to the present day. The film strongly emphasises the links between political groups then which have now become distant and violently opposed to one another and attempts to debunk popular historical myths".
- The final match of the Pro12 season. It was the second with Guinness as the title sponsor and the seventh ever League Grand Final. The final was played between Leinster and Connacht. Connacht claimed their first title, winning on a 20 -10 scoreline
- The untold narrative behind the most successful minor team in the history of the GAA - the Tyrone 'Class of 1997/1998'. The film focuses on the personal experiences and emotions of this unique group of minors who along with their manager, Mickey Harte, graduated to the Tyrone Under 21's where they won two All Irelands, culminating in the 2003 senior triumph. The film shows how an extraordinary series of personal tragedies bonded a particular group of young men and how they triumphed in the face of adversity.
- Exploring communism in Ireland until the fall of the Soviet Union
- First hand accounts of the Irish Republican Army campaign in the North of Ireland from 1956 to 1962. Beginning with a series of daring arms raids, the guerrilla war fizzled out due to lack of support, but the IRA remained intact, ready for the next campaign.
- An investigation into the events surrounding the explosion of a sea-mine in Ballymanus, Co.Donegal in 1943, killing 19 people.
- Over 8 years, a small fisherman puts himself, as 'David against Goliath', in the heart of the new reform of the Common Fisheries in Brussels, to try to understand and change the system that took everything from him.