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Apr 8, 2024 · Explore this curated list of the best Irish war movies of all time, including Michael Collins, In the Name of the Father, and more - ranked by viewers.
- '71
- Ryan's Daughter
- Philomena
- Some Mother's Son
- Michael Collins
- In The Name of The Father
- Bloody Sunday
- Hunger
- My Left Foot
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley
The most recent film on our list, 2014's '71is a fast-paced thriller set in Belfast during the early years of the Troubles era. The movie focuses on a young British soldier - played by Jack O'Connell - who becomes separated from his unit during a bloody local riot. Trapped in a volatile area of the city where Catholic republicans and Protestant loy...
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, this lesser-known film follows a married woman in a small Irish village who has a controversial affair with a British officer during World War I. The film was directed David Lean - the genius behind classics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago(1965) - a...
Based on the life of Philomena Lee, this compelling watch tells the story of an Irishwoman who - after becoming pregnant aged just 18 - was sent to a home for unwed mothers and separated from her son. The film follows the attempts of Philomena (Judi Dench) to find her lost son a half century later. At the heart of the film is the blossoming relatio...
Based on the 1981 hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland, Some Mother's Sonstars Helen Mirren as Kathleen Quigley and Fionnula Flanagan as Annie Higgins - the mothers of two of the strikers. When the prisoners start refusing food and become incapacitated, the mothers must decide whether to abide by their sons' wishes, or to...
Liam Neeson's stirring performance as the eponymous Irish revolutionary was criminally underrecognised by Hollywood - the Antrim man wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award. The 1996 biopic follows Collins' rise in the wake of the Easter Rising through to his Irish Free State negotiations in London, the Irish Civil War and his eventual assassina...
Jim Sheridan's courtroom drama is based on the true story of the Guildford Four, who were falsely convicted of the 1974 pub bombings which killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Gerry Conlon, an Irishman who spent over a decade in prison - along with his father Giuseppe - after police tortured him into confe...
Based on the 1972 massacre of 14 protesters by British soldiers in Derry, Bloody Sundaysees Ballymena native James Nesbitt do an exceptional job as former SDLP politician Ivan Cooper - who lead the anti-internment march which developed into the shooting. The film was written and directed by Paul Greengrass, who went on to write and produce 2004's O...
A 21st century masterwork - Steve McQueen's film about the 1981 hunger strike sees Kerry superstar Michael Fassbender put in the performance of his career so far as Bobby Sands himself. The movie outlines events in the infamous Maze Prison in the lead up to the hunger strike, through to its aftermath and Sands' eventual martyrdom. Hungerfeatures an...
Another film from Jim Sheridan, My Left Footdocuments the extraordinary life of the late Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis, again) - a working class Irishman with crippling cerebral palsy who went on to become a successful novelist, painter and poet. With the encouragement of his mother Bridget (Brenda Fricker), Christy learns to write and draw with ...
Ken Loach really, really pulled it off with this tale of two Cork brothers fighting a guerrilla war against the British during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921). Widely praised, the action-packed drama won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and remains Loach's biggest box office success to date. The film did well both around th...
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922–1923). Written by long-time Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, the film tells the fictional story of two County Cork brothers, Damien (Cillian Murphy) and Teddy O'Donovan ...
Mar 27, 2023 · One of the most popular readings of the film is the allegory indicating the hardship of the Civil War. The film is set in 1923, towards the end of the Irish Civil War. The Irish Civil War turned people who initially fought on the same side against one another, ultimately devastating themselves and everyone around them.
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.
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May 20, 2020 · It champions Irish culture and displays the beauty of the Emerald Isle’s countryside. It recounts the story of two brothers who fight for Irish independence but are ultimately torn apart by the Anglo-Irish Treaty, emblematic of the Irish Civil War of 1922-23 when former comrades took up arms against each other.
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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.
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