Irish movies anyone??

[kensington]

Anyone watching them? 

I watched "Darby 'O Gill and the Little People"... and of course there is "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara to see.

Anyone got a list? 

[Mere Nick]

Also consider these:

Waking Ned Devine
War of the Buttons
Michael Collins
Evelyn
Once
Angela's Ashes
Agnes Brown
The Devil's Own

[kensington]

I will, thank you Nick.

[fanuvmxpx]

Oooh Darby O' gill & Angela's Ashes...excellent films

[Mere Nick]

Waking Ned Devine is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

[MegaJedi]

I just watched The Boondox Saints.

[Rahn]

Also consider these:

Waking Ned Devine
War of the Buttons
Michael Collins
Evelyn
Once
Angela's Ashes
Agnes Brown
The Devil's Own

Patriots
The Informant
The Run of the Country

[ole Jake]

The Wind that Shakes the Barley is as good as movies dealing with Irish history get.

Richard Harris and John Hurt are each stunning in The Field.

Two great 'family' Irish movies are Secret of Roan Inish and Into the West.

Don't miss Daniel Day-Lewis in My left Foot and In the Name of the Father.

[Lee Freeman]

The Hallmark films production The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns is good. Is kind of late a 1990s version of Darby O'Gill, starring  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'sColm Meaney as Seamus Muldoon, leader of the Leprechauns, who're at war with the Trooping Fairies, led by King Boric (The Who's front-man Roger Daltry). The Trooping Fairies are responsible for making sure nature runs smoothly. But after the immortal Leprechauns and Fairies refuse to call a halt to their hostilities, the Grand Banshee (Whoopee Golberg) decrees that they are now mortal-any Fairie or Leprechaun who falls in battle dies. Trouble ensues when Mickey Muldoon, son of Seamus and Maggie (Zoe Wanamaker), and King Boric's and Queen Morag's (Harriet Walter) daughter, Princess Jessica (Caroline Carver), fall in love, which renews hostilities between the two groups. Meanwhile visiting American businessman Jack Woods (Randy Quaid) unwittingly gets involved when he rescues Seamus from drowing. Jack and a local girl named Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Orla Brady), who he's taken a liking to, must avert the war between the Trooping Fairies and the Leprechuans before all of nature falls apart. This film, which originally aired as a miniseries, is Romeo and Juliet meets Bravehart meets Riverdance. I thought it was a really neat miniseries. Its a family film, filmed on location in Ireland, witrh an ensemble cast and featured some truly great characters, such as Seamus Muldoon, bumbling Fairy General Bulstrode (Frank Finlay), who more than anything wants to write the memoirs of his grand military exploits, Kathleen's parish priest, Father Daley (Michael Williams), etc. It also had a great Celtic soundtrack I wish they'd release.

I also thought Blown Away with Jeff and Lloyd Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones and Forest Whitaker was a good film:

Lt. Jimmy Dove (Bridges) is a veteran disposal technician on the Boston Police bomb squad, who irritates his captain, partner and everyone else when he plays hero and disarms dangerous explosives. But nobody, except for his good friend Max (Lloyd Bridges), knows of Jimmy's dark past. Originally from Belfast, Ireland, Jimmy's actual name is Liam McGivney. He had been friends and partners with Ryan Gaerity (Jones), who, unbeknownst to Jimmy/Liam, was a freelance terrorist (not IRA). After a botched attempt to stop one of Gaerity's bombs led to the bomber's imprisonment and the death of his girlfriend (Gaerity's sister), Jimmy/Liam fled to Boston. When Gaerity escapes (also fleeing to Boston), he finds Jimmy, who is semi-retired but working as an instructor, and starts taunting his old protegé with threats and his homemade explosives. With his family and friends in danger, Jimmy reveals his secret to his wife Kate (Suzy Amis) and returns to action to hunt for Gaerity, while fellow officer Anthony Franklin (Forest Whitaker) investigates Jimmy, suspecting his and Gaerity's connection.

Pax.

[kensington]

The Banshee was in Darby O' Gill.  LOL. 

[ole Jake]

I think you may want to see Michael Collins.  I had to watch it for my Terrorism course and I still go back to it because I sometimes have a hard time telling if he was a terrorist or a patriot.  This movie is good because it makes you think about it if your a Criminal Justice major.

Any man who acts to achieve national independence for his nation from an empire will be denounced as a terrorist by that empire and its lackeys and friends.

Of course, there is the matter of using military force to terrorize civilian populations in order to achieve politcal goals. That is the best, and more fair, definition of terrorist. And that also causes problems in looking at Ireland. Which has inflicted, by far, the most violent terror, including death and forced population removals, on non-combatants in Ireland, in the entire set of British Isles if you wish to count casulaties from a dozen IRA bombs in England, over the centuries: various Irish nationalist/independence movements or the armies of the British Empire?

That leads to this question: are not the building of an empire and the use of any violent force to maintain an empire acts of terrorism?

If you find Michael Collins thought provoking, then you must see The Wind that Shakes the Barley.