Alan Gilsenan
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Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His documentaries, which range from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, are distinguished by intellectual rigour and creative innovation, allied to a seemingly unquenchable curiosity about history, literature, culture and society – both in Ireland but also in the wider world. His highly eclectic oeuvre of over 40 films for cinema and television also provides an invaluable compendium of reflection on Irish minds and Irish matters over four decades.
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Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici (2022)
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The Meeting (2018)
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Timbuktu (2004)
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Unless (2016)
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Zulu 9 (2001)
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The Road to God Knows Where (1988)
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The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones (2026)
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Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay (2013)
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We Only Want the Earth (2026)
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An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy (2023)
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Meetings with Ivor (2017)
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The Seven Ages of Noël Browne (2023)
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A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators (2014)
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The Irish Question (2024)
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The United Irishmen (2023)
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All Souls' Day (1997)
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The Yellow Bittern (—)
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The Ghost of Roger Casement (2002)
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The Great Book of Ireland (2020)
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Ghosts of Baggotonia (2022)
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The Days of Trees (2024)
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