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The Dig - Director Andy Tohill

February 24, 2019 13:50 - 13 minutes - 3.03 MB

The Dig follows a through line of Northern Irish thrillers from The Survivalist to Bad Day For The Cut. After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the

Allan With Two Ls, Director | Gillian Griffin

February 24, 2019 13:40 - 12 minutes - 2.83 MB

Allan has just turned 99. He sits with his grand daughter, the filmmaker, and recalls memories of life in Dublin from a century gone by.

Pigeons of Discontent, Paddy Cahill is a Dublin based documentary director.

February 24, 2019 13:25 - 10 minutes - 2.44 MB

In the otherwise tranquil Dublin neighbourhood of Stoneybatter, one local quirk has divided neighbours. The Pigeons.

Grá & Eagla is a short documentary examining Irish people’s attitudes towards our native language.

February 24, 2019 13:10 - 11 minutes - 2.74 MB

Caitríona Ní Chadhain is from Connemara in County Galway, Ireland, she grew up speaking Irish and is passionate about the importance of keeping the endangered language alive.

Scope- Director; Richard Keaney Toronto Irish Film Fest SUN MAR 3rd 2:00pm

February 17, 2019 13:50 - 12 minutes - 2.85 MB

When a young man drops out of college to care for his mother, he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world. Richard Keaney will be in attendance.

Vegetable - Director; Mícheál Fleming Toronto Irish Film Fest SUN MAR 3rd 2:00pm

February 17, 2019 13:40 - 11 minutes - 2.7 MB

Yes, it’s a film about Irish zombies…because the vege-tables have turned on a desperate trio of zombies, who are left with no choice but to chomp on vegetables to survive. (In English & Irish).

First Disco - Director; Helen O’Reilly Toronto Irish Film Fest SUN MAR 3rd 2:00pm

February 17, 2019 13:25 - 10 minutes - 2.44 MB

A first disco. Everyone’s had one. Think back to 1983. Culture Club are no. 1, everyone’s glued to Knight Rider, and Kelly Harrison is not only experiencing her first crush, she’s going to her first disco. Kelly’s only problem is she’s getting train track

Ma - Director; Anne Marie Kelly Toronto Irish Film Fest SUN MAR 3rd 2:00pm

February 17, 2019 13:15 - 9 minutes - 2.22 MB

We can all empathize with the grief of the mother who’s lost a child. But should we empathize with the grief of the mother of the person responsible? This powerful short drama asks the question.

Troubles Director; Jonathan Harden, Toronto Irish Film Fest SUN MAR 3rd 2:00pm

February 17, 2019 13:00 - 15 minutes - 3.51 MB

A troubled traditional Irish musician re-enters the fold after a long absence. An emotionally stunted friend wants to offer an apology. When words fail them both, music is all they have to bring them together.

Almost Home

February 10, 2019 13:45 - 18 minutes - 4.15 MB

Emmet O'Brien & Steve Broekhuizen

Recovery

February 10, 2019 13:35 - 9 minutes - 2.23 MB

Siofra Quinn-Gates

The Land Grabber - Toronto Irish Players

February 10, 2019 13:20 - 14 minutes - 3.33 MB

Kristin Chan & Geraldine Browne

Premier International Tapestry Exhibition

February 10, 2019 13:00 - 17 minutes - 3.98 MB

Frances Crowe

Fill Your Heart With Ireland

February 03, 2019 13:35 - 16 minutes - 3.72 MB

Niall Gibbons, CEO Tourism Ireland - Tourism Ireland has identified a number of strategic areas to underpin its promotional activity in 2019

Ireland's first Consul General in Vancouver.

February 03, 2019 13:00 - 33 minutes - 7.67 MB

Irish Consul General: Frank Flood

The year in review by Canadian Ambassador to Canada

January 27, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 13.7 MB

Ambassador Jim Kelly

Celtic Irish American Academy (CIAA) Canadian debut

January 20, 2019 13:45 - 14 minutes - 3.25 MB

Laura Hay and Peter Hughes are helping create awareness and promote the Celtic Irish American Academy (CIAA) summer program in Canada. This is the first year the progrgam is being made available in Canada. Laura and Peter provide the details.

Dr Johanna Clancy on Celtic Irish American Academy

January 20, 2019 13:25 - 19 minutes - 4.46 MB

Offering you a unique, transformational experience that adds significant long-term value to your personal development and career outcomes is the core of the Celtic Irish American Academy (CIAA) summer program.

Dan McGrath on the McGrath Clan Gathering 2019

January 20, 2019 13:00 - 21 minutes - 4.81 MB

Dungarvan, Co Waterford, Ireland, will host the 2019 International McGrath Clan Gathering next June. This 5-day festival of heritage, culture and history, will attract members of this great Irish clan from around the world to Dungarvan

The Rising - The Movie

January 13, 2019 13:35 - 22 minutes - 5.15 MB

Kevin McCann

Minding Frankie - 7.30 Production

January 13, 2019 13:15 - 22 minutes - 5.2 MB

John P. Kelly

In Conversation with Richie Ryan

January 13, 2019 13:00 - 12 minutes - 2.77 MB

Richie Ryan

Red Shannon

January 06, 2019 13:45 - 13 minutes - 3.2 MB

Red Shannon, from Limerick, spent a number of years studying in Montreal before moving to Toronto and then New Brunswick. While in Montreal he broadcast an Irish show on CJAD.

Seamus Hennessy from Co Cork met Michelle while she was studying in Ireland.

January 06, 2019 13:15 - 30 minutes - 6.97 MB

The couple were in Newfoundland for Christmas vacation and Seamus and Michelle relate the story of their meeting and the onset and diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and their subsequent journey.

Seamus Hennessy from Co Cork met Michelle wile she was studying in Ireland.

January 06, 2019 13:15 - 30 minutes - 6.97 MB

The couple were in Newfoundland for Christmas vacation and Seamus and Michelle relate the story of their meeting and the onset and diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and their subsequent journey.

Noreen Maher Hibernia Roots

January 06, 2019 13:00 - 14 minutes - 3.42 MB

Hibernia Roots Genealogy Services was established by Noreen Maher MGSI. Noreen is an experienced qualified Genealogist.

Paddy Brennan: Limerick Music Throughout the Decades: A musical journey through time

December 30, 2018 13:30 - 31 minutes - 7.25 MB

Paddy Brennan of Limerick Rock n Roll Club has released his much-awaited book ‘Limerick Music throughout the Decades’, which explores the history of music in Limerick from the 1800s to 2018.

James Maloney MP Chair; Irish - Canadian Interparliamentary Group Review

December 30, 2018 13:00 - 29 minutes - 6.67 MB

The Canada-Ireland Interparliamentary Friendship Group promotes exchanges between Irish and Canadian parliamentarians, proposes initiatives likely to lead to a better mutual understanding of national & international problems

The Day the Poppy Met the Shamrock

December 23, 2018 13:00 - 45 minutes - 10.5 MB

This is the story of the author’s struggle within himself, leading to the epiphany that he experienced on a November day, during a graveside commemoration in a town in Belgium, marking the end of the First World War.

Minister for the Diaspora Ciaran Cannon

December 16, 2018 13:30 - 29 minutes - 6.73 MB

Ciaran Cannon with music by Sean Keane & Aine Morgan

Fionn - The Opera

December 09, 2018 13:35 - 14 minutes - 3.37 MB

Nissin Khalifa about a fully composed and orchestrated opera of Fionn McCool.

The Celtic Tenors - In Converstion with Matthew Gilsenan

December 09, 2018 13:00 - 30 minutes - 7.01 MB

Matthew Gilsenan

Alex Fegan - Older Than Ireland

December 02, 2018 13:40 - 21 minutes - 4.93 MB

OLDER THAN IRELAND is a landmark documentary that tells the story of a hundred years of a life as seen through the eyes of thirty Irish centenarians.

Maze - Stephen Burke

December 02, 2018 13:15 - 22 minutes - 5.2 MB

Stephen Burke: Maze director Stephen Burke talking about bringing real IRA jailbreak to the big screen.

When Wire Was King

December 02, 2018 13:00 - 12 minutes - 2.85 MB

Jennifer Manner - Director; When Wire Was King is a one-hour documentary that puts the telecommunications revolution into historical context while also looking into the crystal ball of the future

Digital Cultural Heritage

November 25, 2018 13:40 - 23 minutes - 5.39 MB

Dr Natalie Harrower

The Puck of the Irish

November 25, 2018 13:20 - 16 minutes - 3.69 MB

Samuel Kingston

The Drummer and The Keeper

November 25, 2018 13:00 - 20 minutes - 4.66 MB

Nick Kelly

Katherine ODonnell - The Accidental Oral Historian

November 18, 2018 13:40 - 18 minutes - 4.2 MB

Katherine O'Donnell, director of an Irish Research Council project on recording the archival and oral history of the Irish Magdalenes, reveals how she came to undertake the project.

Charles Duggan :- 14 Henrietta Street – the making of a museum

November 18, 2018 13:20 - 20 minutes - 4.63 MB

From splendid Georgian beginnings to squalid tenement dwellings, the 14 Henrietta street museum seeks to interpret and exhibit Dublin’s rich and chequered social history through the stories and shifting fortunes of its residents.

In time of inquisition: preserving and using the archives of the Irish Catholic Church

November 18, 2018 13:00 - 20 minutes - 4.74 MB

John McCafferty, UCD discusses the importance of the archives of Catholic religious congregations and dioceses for writing the history of Ireland

ICBA Summit 2018

November 11, 2018 13:25 - 21 minutes - 4.94 MB

Kate Hickey

Famous Wexford People in History

November 11, 2018 13:10 - 25 minutes - 5.77 MB

Des Kiely

National Libraries As Memory Keepers

November 04, 2018 12:30 - 19 minutes - 4.56 MB

Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland, discusses how national libraries are memory keepers for their countries, collecting and keeping safe memories that share the culture, heritage and story of their nation.

Fitzwilliam Migration

November 04, 2018 12:00 - 29 minutes - 6.66 MB

Kevin & Elanor Lee, John Dwyer

Carol Wiebe & Fraser Rubens; A Song in Our Hearts

October 28, 2018 12:00 - 18 minutes - 4.3 MB

Concert Docs, founded in 2017 by Dr. Fraser Rubens and Dr. Carol Wiebe, is an organization of musician doctors - doctors who also happen to be excellent musicians - who offer pro bono concerts for good causes in the Ottawa area.

Ireland Canada Monument

October 28, 2018 00:04 - 26 minutes - 6.06 MB

Brendan Flynn

Irish Electoral System

October 21, 2018 12:20 - 37 minutes - 8.68 MB

Alan Farrell

Ministerial Visit to Newfoundland

October 21, 2018 12:00 - 10 minutes - 2.41 MB

Ciaran Cannon

BIFHSGO

October 14, 2018 12:40 - 17 minutes - 4.11 MB

Mary Boyd, George Neville, Natasha Curran

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