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- Feature length documentary which challenges many of the popular myths about the 1798 Rebellion. "It reveals the central role of Presbyterians in the United Irishmen and the strong Catholic involvement in the crown forces who suppressed the Rebellion". The programme features dramatic re-enactments of some of the key skirmishes. "An exploration of the 1798 rebellion which relates the events of two hundred years before to the present day. The film strongly emphasises the links between political groups then which have now become distant and violently opposed to one another and attempts to debunk popular historical myths".
- Documentary series on the history of the great Famine of Ireland.
- Through stunning and vibrant cinematography, examines the mesmerizing construction of clear crystal glass pieces. The whole process from the intense heat of the furnace to glass blowing, shaping, cutting, honing, filling and finishing.
- The banning in the 1940s as indecent and obscene of two Irish classics - "The Midnight Court", Frank O'Connor's translation of Brian Merriman's Gaelic sexual satire "Cúirt an Mheán Oíche", and "The Tailor and Ansty", Eric Cross's earthy portrait of a West Cork couple.
- Despite their origins as colonists and planters the Protestants of Ireland, North and South, have put down deep roots and have been central to the story of the Irish Language for over four hundred years. Drawing on John Hewitt's memorable phrase, documentary-maker Louis Marcus re-assesses the position of the Planter Protestant in Ireland particularly in relation to the preservation and promotion of Irish language and culture. How many are aware that Queen Elizabeth I commissioned an Irish grammar and paid for the development of the Irish typescript so that it could be published? The English dilemma - whether to develop the Irish language to promote Protestantism or to obliterate it to effect the Anglicisation of Ireland - was a perennial source of contention.
- Six part series documenting both Irish history and contemporary attitudes to the questions as raised then and as confronted now by the Irish people.