82 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland During The 20th Century
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The Dawn
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sThe fight must go on. — Set in 1920 Ireland when the Black & Tans were brought in from Britain to help supress revolution in Ireland. It was the first full length sound movie made in Ireland and tells the saga of an IRA flying column in Kerry and the local Malone family suspected of betraying their country. It was made in and around Killarney by Tom Cooper, the owner of the local cinema who also directs and stars as the head of the local IRA.
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The Plough and the Stars
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1910sA husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
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The Informer
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sGypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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The Key
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sA British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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Juno and the Paycock
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sDuring the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
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The Informer
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sA man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
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You Remember Ellen
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1910sSummer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near Killarney. Among the films: You Remember Ellen, an adaptation of a famous poem written by Thomas Moore.
