
Directing
Alan Gilsenan
Biography
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 Films

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The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
2026·Documentary

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We Only Want the Earth
2026·Documentary

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The Days of Trees
2024·Documentary

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The Irish Question
2024·Documentary

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The United Irishmen
2023·Documentary

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An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy
2023

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The Seven Ages of Noël Browne
2023·Documentary

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Ghosts of Baggotonia
2022·Documentary

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Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
2022·Documentary

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The Great Book of Ireland
2020·Documentary

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The Meeting
2018

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Meetings with Ivor
2017·Documentary

4.8
Unless
2016·Drama

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A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators
2014

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Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
2013·Documentary

9.0
Timbuktu
2004·Drama

8.0
The Ghost of Roger Casement
2002·Documentary

10.0
Zulu 9
2001·Drama

7.0
All Souls' Day
1997·Drama

7.0
The Road to God Knows Where
1988

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The Yellow Bittern
·Documentary