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What films about Ireland would be best to show foreigners?

June 24th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Other - Ireland

10 comments to What films about Ireland would be best to show foreigners?

  • starrrr
    June 26th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    MAGDALENE SISTERS

  • Digipics D
    June 27th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Saving Ryan Air

    Guess who’s coming to the fundraising dinner

    One flew over Kildare Street (on his way to Manchester)

    A new version of Back To The Future is being made. It will be called Back To The Past starring Bertie Ahern as Marty McFly, Mary Harney as ‘Doc’ Emmet Brown, Brian Cowen as Biff(o) and Willie O’ Dea as George McFly. In the film they all travel back to 1995 in a Government jet to try and save us from the recession we are in now.

  • fashonion
    June 30th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Into the West
    War of the Buttons

    The Last of the high Kings ( I doubt you would find that though)
    The General)

    Anything by Roddy Doyle

    These will be great to watch for the different ascents. As for showing off the country, I doubt they would make anyone want to visit.

    Please make sure they NEVER watch Far and Away.

  • 100%irish
    July 3rd, 2008 at 6:48 am

    war of the buttons
    michael collins
    the wind that shakes the barley
    angela’s ashes

  • ivastupidname
    July 5th, 2008 at 6:43 am

    Adam and Paul…

    Or maybe the Commitments

  • Not the real Podge and Rodge!
    July 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    Darby O’ Gill and the Little People…..
    Cinéma vérité at its very best!

  • jk
    July 7th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    You should show them Rat

    It has a variety of accents in it and you should just show it to them anyway.

  • Orla C
    July 9th, 2008 at 6:38 am

    Into the West, but only if you can get it with subtitles, as the accent is hard to follow. You might want to introduce them to the story of Oisin and Niamh, and talk to them a little about the Travelling community first.

    Also, Cowboys and Angels, set in contemporary Limerick. Great film.

    War of the Buttons is a possibility, but it’s actually based on a French story, so ….

    The Field. Historical fiction.

    Michael Collins – brilliant and very sad. Alan Rickman is a PERFECT Eamonn De Valera in it, kudos to the man, he’s never disappointed me yet.

    The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper (probably the best black comedy made in Europe during the 1990s) and The Van. But only if you can get them with subtitles ….

  • froggequene
    July 10th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    Intermission, with Colin Farrell the ever lovely Cillian Murphy, mostly Dublin accents and features the loveliest geansai ever seen as worn by the talented Mr Farrell

    Saltwater

    I went down

    Into the West

    The Field

    Edit: You could also consider The Butcher Boy Breakfast on Pluto

  • reginaldstower
    July 11th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    the quite man

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