Person
Alan Gilsenan
Directing
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.
Known for
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
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The Meeting
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Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
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The Road to God Knows Where
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Unless
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Ghosts of Baggotonia
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An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy
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Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
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Zulu 9
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We Only Want the Earth
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Filmography
- 2026The Journey of Weather-Exposed BonesDirector
- 2026We Only Want the EarthDirector
- 2024The Days of TreesDirector
- 2024The Irish QuestionDirector
- 2023The United IrishmenDirector
- 2023An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing BoyDirector
- 2023The Seven Ages of Noël BrowneDirector
- 2022Ghosts of BaggotoniaDirector
- 2022Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is LiriciDirector
- 2020The Great Book of IrelandDirector
- 2018The MeetingDirector
- 2017Meetings with IvorDirector
- 2016UnlessDirector
- 2014A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and AviatorsDirector
- 2013Eliza Lynch: Queen of ParaguayDirector
- 2004TimbuktuDirector
- 2002The Ghost of Roger CasementDirector
- 2001Zulu 9Director
- 1997All Souls' DayDirector
- 1988The Road to God Knows WhereDirector
- —Michael D. – Power to the PeopleDirector
- —Clannad: The Farewell / An Scaradh DeireanachDirector
- —The Yellow BitternDirector
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