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Black '47(2018)

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Becoming Jane(2007)

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

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The Quiet Man(1952)

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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Barry Lyndon(1975)

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Happy Ever After(1954)

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Bloody Sunday(2002)

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Breakfast on Pluto(2005)

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley(2006)

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The Boys & Girl from County Clare(2003)

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

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Angela's Ashes(1999)

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

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Laws of Attraction(2004)

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

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Wilde(1997)

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.

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An Irish Angel(2022)

Aine is a secondary school girl from the wrong side of the tracks, who lives in Portrush, NI with her mother Margaret, who works as a cleaner for a local office, and her grandmother Agnes, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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Waking Ned(1998)

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

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The Secret of Roan Inish(1994)

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.

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P.S. I Love You(2007)

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Once(2007)

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.

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Patriot Games(1992)

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

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The General(1998)

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

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