Favourite Irish Movies of All Time

Flight of the Doves! Filmed in different parts of County Galway including my first home in Dunlo Street, Ballinasloe, where they filmed the Garda Barracks scenes! They used actual Gardai as extras because my Uncle Liam was a young recruit at the time and he is in it! 

If you get a chance, the documentary called Out of Ireland is great.

I would add The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Philomena, and Waking Ned Devine.  So many good Irish movies!!

More in from our IrelandXO Facebook fans...

• Hear My Song (1991)
• War of the Buttons (1994)
• The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
• Evelyn (2002) starring Pierce Brosnan
• Song For a Raggy Boy (2003) starring Aidan Quinn
• Once (2007)
• Leap Year (2010) starring Amy Adams
• Calvary (2014) starring Brendan Gleeson

I love anything Irish but the first Irish movie I saw at the cinema was Ryan's Daughter. Loved the story and the scenery in that one.  

Another one I loved particularly was Philomena, partly because of Judi Dench but it was a true story.

THANKS for this listing above, so many others I haven't seen that I will look out for now. :)

Into The West with Gabriel Byrne

Cal with Liam Neeson

The Catholics with Trevor Howard

The Hanging Gale

Guess where my name comes from - now you know what my Dad's favorite movie was!

I'd like to add Man of Arran  by Robert J Flaherty 1934

Black '47 - Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the film follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. The title is taken from the most devastating year of the famine, 1847, which is referred to as "Black '47".  The film is much like an old-style American Western, but the Irish version...

The Molly Maguires
1973 film about late 19th cebtury Irish immigrant miners in Pittsburgh area, struggling for fair wages and conditions and taking extreme action.
Stars Richard Harris and Sean Connery (in his best film I'd say!).

Belfast (directed by Kenneth Branagh)

My Left Foot

Hear My Song

Brooklyn (with Saiorse Ronan)

The Quiet Girl

A Shine of Rainbows

Far and Away

Blue Max.....  Although it is not an Irish film...  It was filmed in Ireland near Dublin.  I remember as a child watching the dog fights above my Aunt & Uncles cottage and also driving to find 'The Set'.   The whole family went to see it was a big Blockbuster and I remember feeling that we had been part of it...  Sounds weird now, but through the eyes of a child!

Breakfast on Pluto

DARE TO BE WILD 2014 based on the true story of Mary Reynolds who wanted to be a landscape designer and enter the Chelsea Garden Show.  Emma Greenwell, Tom Hughes.

THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELAND 2000 some ladies in Belfast were finding it difficult to fall pregnant - who you going to call - the man with the highest sperm count in Ireland. But will he get snipped or not.  James Nesbitt, Kris Marshall, Bronagh Gallagher.

I agree with "The Banshees of Inisherin," "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" and "The Secret of Roan Inish."  I would also add:  "Black '47," "The Wonder," "Angela's Ashes" and "Ondine." 

 I am surprised no one mentioned 'By the Rising of the Moon' by Tyrone Power.  Perhaps because it is rarely shown (at least in Chicago) nut I recomment looking for it