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  • 2019
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    The Irish Revolution

    The Irish Revolution

    9.00 2019 HD

    The extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence (1919-22): from the failed insurrection of 1916, the detailed account of how...

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  • 2022
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    Ardal O'Hanlon: Tomb Raider

    Ardal O'Hanlon: Tomb Raider

    8.00 2022 HD

    Ardal O’Hanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish men and women using archaeology, answering his deepest questions about what it...

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  • 1994
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    Family

    Family

    8.50 1994 HD

    This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief,...

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  • 2003
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    Holy Cross

    Holy Cross

    4.00 2003 HD

    Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their...

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  • 1999
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    A Love Divided

    A Love Divided

    6.00 1999 HD

    The dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950s Ireland.

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  • 2019
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    Storm Front in Mayo

    Storm Front in Mayo

    7.50 2019 HD

    Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen...

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  • 2003
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    A Ferret Called Mickey

    A Ferret Called Mickey

    6.00 2003 HD

    Eight year old Paulie is happiest when dressing-up in his mother’s high heels and having tea parties in the garden. His father however would...

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  • 1988
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    Reefer and the Model

    Reefer and the Model

    5.17 1988 HD

    Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to...

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  • 2016
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    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

    1.00 2016 HD

    A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

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  • 2011
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    The Boy in the Bubble

    The Boy in the Bubble

    7.10 2011 HD

    Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache...

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  • 2018
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    Countdown to Calvary

    Countdown to Calvary

    8.00 2018 HD

    Hugh Bonneville reveals how a perfect storm of political intrigue, power struggles and clashing religious passions combined, in a single week, to...

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  • 2000
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    Not I

    Not I

    5.40 2000 HD

    A young woman sits down in a chair. Only her mouth is visible as she begins to speak at a rapid clip, describing events that she insists did not...

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  • 1977
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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    6.00 1977 HD

    Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures...

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  • 1990
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    Dear Sarah

    Dear Sarah

    1 1990 HD

    Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as...

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  • 2008
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    Alarm

    Alarm

    4.50 2008 HD

    A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards...

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  • 2019
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    Shooting the Darkness

    Shooting the Darkness

    7.80 2019 HD

    The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around...

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  • 1990
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    The Lilac Bus

    The Lilac Bus

    7.00 1990 HD

    The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.

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  • 2017
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    Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

    Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

    1 2017 HD

    An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston.

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  • 2025
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    The Phone Box Babies

    The Phone Box Babies

    1 2025 HD

    In 1960s Ireland, three newborn babies were abandoned in different parts of the country and left without any clue to their identity. Fifty years...

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  • 2003
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    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    7.70 2003 HD

    Hugo Chavez was a colourful, unpredictable folk hero who was beloved by his nation’s working class. He was elected president of Venezuela in...

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