Best Irish Films
 

In honor of St. Paddy's Day, I thought it might be interesting/fun to list/recommend our favorite Irish and Irish American films...

I've probably forgotten a few but here are some of mine...

Some Mother's Son

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0aYvlQbZz4


In The Name of the Father

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQr1QfzB-sw


The Wind That Shakes the Barley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc61Cjmmbkg

Bloody Sunday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xBcwhq_zXA

The Commitments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_aO9pv0Y7I


The Crying Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiUpEUzuooE

The Magdalene Sisters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hga3kqwuBSc

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4xnb9AmY28

The Departed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWvwjZ0eDc


Miller's Crossing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkJIcFMN_pc

Gangs of New York

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcty-Vw77R8

P.S. I Love You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GNxdc-wlw4

Million Dollar Baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irDGknOu0uY

The Boondock Saints

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Mt5yDqngM



Anyone else?



EDIT: Added the trailers...

Re: Best Irish Films
 

Close enough:

http://robalderson.files.wordpress.c...braveheart.jpg

Serious answer: The Departed is probably my personal favorite.

Re: Best Irish Films
 

Yeah, The Departed is up there.

I'll make it my business to watch all of those.

Re: Best Irish Films
 

The Boondock Saints - All Saints Day.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8kbwGHaBDW...0/PDVD_004.BMP
Odd Man Out
1947, Carol Reed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKe9SIQkkl4


http://www.been-seen.com/archive/sri6.jpg
The Secret of Roan Inish
1994, John Sayles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDgTq7GN4Yw


http://www.groene-engel.nl/cache/699...jtfestival.jpg
Nothing Personal
2009, Urszula Antoniak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNxINUR-R0


http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/files...utcherboy4.jpg
The Butcher Boy
1998, Neil Jordan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmDxULCIpo


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once
2007, John Carney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=726SFblz9Lk

Can't forget the rest of Jim Sheridan's Irish films:

My Left Foot

In America

The Boxer

The Field

then there's:

The General

Michael Collins

and Hunger

Knew I forgot a few... particularly Once and My Left Foot... I have The Butcher Boy and Nothing Personal on my 'to see list' and should be getting Hunger tomorrow or the next day...

Re: Best Irish Films
 

And not a film, but funny...

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/m...d_1419238c.jpg
"Father Ted" BBC, 1995-1998

Re: Best Irish Films
 

My favorite Irish movies are The Field, My left foot, and In the name of the Father

Re: Best Irish Films
 

Others not mentioned which I enjoy include Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, The Playboy of the Western World, The Rising of the Moon, Shake Hands with the Devil, Widows' Peak and The Field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C3UHiD29BI

Neil Jordan's Angel (1982)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b6...1094-large.jpg

...and the two parts of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy that aren't The Commitments - The Van and The Snapper.

...and Odd Man Out.

...and, of course, Ken Loach's magnificent Hidden Agenda (1990).

From TV, Harry's Game and Graham Reid's Billy Plays.

:)

EDIT - And how could I forget Alan Clarke's Elephant? I'll stop now. ;)

Finally watched all of Hidden Agenda the other day... and should have added it too...

Angela's Ashes (almost as good as the book)

http://www.impawards.com/1999/poster...ashes_ver2.jpg