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.

Filmography

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