Eileen Colgan Movies

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh...

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic...

In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty,...

When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.

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.

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an...

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a...

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental...

A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad...

A man who thinks he is a train.

18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his...

Dublin, 1912: A young woman, Eveline, of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home.

The first half of Ann Wolff's BFI-funded short sees the eponymous captain (played by O'Connor) enacting the bizarre actions of the verse, chewing his...