At school, Connell (Paul Mescal) and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) pretend not to know each other. But when Connell collects his mother from her job at Marianne’s house, a strange, indelible connection grows, one they’re determined to conceal. Later, they’re both studying at Trinity College, where Marianne is popular and Connell shyer, more uncertain. During their time, they circle one another, straying toward other people but always magnetically drawn back together.
CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS is Sally Rooney’s 2017 stunning debut novel. It is a sharply intelligent story set in Dublin about two college students Frances and Bobbi, and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple, Melissa and Nick
A dark, psychological mystery which focuses on a murder investigation led by two ambitious and charismatic detectives, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene). When a young, talented ballerina is found dead on an ancient stone altar, her death drags up another tragedy that befell this community years before – when three children disappeared into the local woods and only one returned.
This trilogy of films set between 1979 and 1992 charts the emergence of modern Ireland through the hugely controversial figure of Charles J Haughey. In his pursuit of power, wealth and glamour he can be seen to presage the dreams and aspirations of a whole society that emerged in the subsequent era of the Celtic Tiger, a beast he himself was largely responsible for creating.
RED ROCK’ is an Irish crime-drama series with an all-star cast. Based in the fictional seaside town of Red Rock is a busy Dublin Garda station just outside of the city. Two prominent families in the neighbourhood are the Hennessys and the Kielys, who have an ongoing feud with each other. Working to keep the peace between the locals are the police, however when a dead body is found lying on a pier the two families reignite their war.
PROSPERITY is a series of four one-hour dramas for television from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran, the team behind ADAM & PAUL and GARAGE. PROSPERITY tells four powerful, moving and funny stories set on the same day, each episode examining the life of a single character on the margins of the Celtic Tiger.
Three feature length crime thrillers adapted from the novels by John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black, and starring Gabriel Byrne as Dublin city pathologist Quirke, a charismatic, troubled loner who spends his life hiding from his past even as he uncovers the secrets of the Dublin dead.
The character-driven miniseries REBELLION honors the 100th anniversary of the start of the Easter Uprising in 1916, a defining moment in Irish and British history. Three diverse young women and their families, lovers and friends from Belfast, Dublin and London play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland’s independence. Some prioritize family loyalties; some are motivated by the noblest of ideals, some by opportunism; others take up arms, prepared to sacrifice everything for the dream of a better society and true independence.
At school, Connell (Paul Mescal) and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) pretend not to know each other. But when Connell collects his mother from her job at Marianne’s house, a strange, indelible connection grows, one they’re determined to conceal. Later, they’re both studying at Trinity College, where Marianne is popular and Connell shyer, more uncertain. During their time, they circle one another, straying toward other people but always magnetically drawn back together.
CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS is Sally Rooney’s 2017 stunning debut novel. It is a sharply intelligent story set in Dublin about two college students Frances and Bobbi, and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple, Melissa and Nick
A dark, psychological mystery which focuses on a murder investigation led by two ambitious and charismatic detectives, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene). When a young, talented ballerina is found dead on an ancient stone altar, her death drags up another tragedy that befell this community years before – when three children disappeared into the local woods and only one returned.
This trilogy of films set between 1979 and 1992 charts the emergence of modern Ireland through the hugely controversial figure of Charles J Haughey. In his pursuit of power, wealth and glamour he can be seen to presage the dreams and aspirations of a whole society that emerged in the subsequent era of the Celtic Tiger, a beast he himself was largely responsible for creating.
RED ROCK’ is an Irish crime-drama series with an all-star cast. Based in the fictional seaside town of Red Rock is a busy Dublin Garda station just outside of the city. Two prominent families in the neighbourhood are the Hennessys and the Kielys, who have an ongoing feud with each other. Working to keep the peace between the locals are the police, however when a dead body is found lying on a pier the two families reignite their war.
PROSPERITY is a series of four one-hour dramas for television from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran, the team behind ADAM & PAUL and GARAGE. PROSPERITY tells four powerful, moving and funny stories set on the same day, each episode examining the life of a single character on the margins of the Celtic Tiger.
The character-driven miniseries REBELLION honors the 100th anniversary of the start of the Easter Uprising in 1916, a defining moment in Irish and British history. Three diverse young women and their families, lovers and friends from Belfast, Dublin and London play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland’s independence. Some prioritize family loyalties; some are motivated by the noblest of ideals, some by opportunism; others take up arms, prepared to sacrifice everything for the dream of a better society and true independence.