Director
Alan Gilsenan
21 films
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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Filmography 20
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
2026 · Director
We Only Want the Earth
2026 · Director, Writer
The Days of Trees
2024 · Cinematography, Writer
The Irish Question
2024 · Director
The United Irishmen
2023 · Director
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy
2023 · Director
The Seven Ages of Noël Browne
2023 · Director
Ghosts of Baggotonia
2022 · Director
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
2022 · Director
The Great Book of Ireland
2020 · Director
The Meeting
2018 · Director, Writer
Meetings with Ivor
2017 · Director
Unless
2016 · Director, Writer
A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators
2014 · Director
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
2013 · Director, Writer
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Timbuktu
2004 · Director
The Ghost of Roger Casement
2002 · Director
Zulu 9
2001 · Director
All Souls' Day
1997 · Director
The Road to God Knows Where
1988 · Director