Alan Gilsenan

Biography

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.

Movies with Alan Gilsenan

• Michael D. – Power to the People
• Clannad: The Farewell / An Scaradh Deireanach

Movies directed by Alan Gilsenan

• Unless 2016 · ★ 4.8
• The Road to God Knows Where 1988 · ★ 7.0
• All Souls' Day 1997 · ★ 7.0
• Zulu 9 2001 · ★ 10.0
• The Ghost of Roger Casement 2002 · ★ 8.0
• Timbuktu 2004 · ★ 9.0
• Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay 2013
• An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy 2023
• The United Irishmen 2023
• The Seven Ages of Noël Browne 2023
• Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici 2022
• Ghosts of Baggotonia 2022
• The Irish Question 2024
• Meetings with Ivor 2017
• The Days of Trees 2024
• The Meeting 2018
• A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators 2014
• We Only Want the Earth 2026
• The Great Book of Ireland 2020
• The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones 2026