Alan Gilsenan
Directing
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.
Directed
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
20164.8
A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators
2014
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
2013
Timbuktu
20049.0
The Ghost of Roger Casement
20028.0
Zulu 9
200110.0
All Souls' Day
19977.0
The Road to God Knows Where
19887.0
The Yellow Bittern
Movie