Sunday Short time.
The featured Irish short film today is a nice little fable called Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (My Name Is You Ming). It’s […]

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Sunday Short time.
I keep forgetting the days have names, and with it that I used to be in the habit of posting Irish film shorts […]

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It’s been ages since we’ve done a Sunday Short, and Oscar Sunday is as good a day as any for an excuse to show another […]

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In Waterfall in 1955 hurling was out. And rock ‘n’ roll was in.
Written and directed by the late Ronan Phelan, Gangs of Waterfall is a […]

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Sunday Short time.
Strictly speaking this is not an Irish Short Film. But it is a film, and it’s Irish, and it’s short.
It’s episode 7 from […]

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Finbar Lebowitz is this week’s Sunday Short - the irregular post I do featuring an Irish short film.
Made in 2000 and set in Dublin, it’s […]

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Nun More Deadly, by the WYD-Eye Film Unit, is your Sunday Short, this week’s featured Irish short film.
This is a Raymond Chandler style film noir […]

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Duffel Coat. A short film by Alex Gill.
It’s Sunday so here’s your Sunday Short, the irregular posting I do of Irish short films.
Duffel Coat stars […]

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We haven’t done a Sunday Short for a while.
Here then is my favourite from the Dublin Stories series of films by NOVARAfilms. It’s episode 4 […]

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Ballyvaughan Story is an award-winning Irish short animated documentary featuring a story from the War of Independence.
It’s a small story from 1921 in Ballyvaughan, which […]

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Here’s your Sunday Short film for you. How Derry Began.
It’s an 8-minute animated history of Derry City, starting in the Ice-Age when Derry was an […]

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A couple of weeks back, part-time Kansas City resident, Irish performer Máirtín de Cógáin sent me a link about somebody we’d been talking about on […]

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We haven’t done a Sunday Short Film for a while. Here’s a nicely made five-minute documentary on Dublin’s famous chipper Leo Burdock’s titled Crispy Bits […]

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Sunday cinema time.
I’ve been a fan of Ruairí Robinson since his first short film, The House on Dame Street, and eagerly await either a local […]

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Speaking of Irish speech, it’s Sunday Short time and it’s all about the way we speak.
About twenty years ago, when I was temporarily in England, […]

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Scangers in Red by Seamus Walsh, a Dublin short film courtesy of Google Video.
I found it hilarious, though perhaps you have to be acquainted with […]

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Here’s your Sunday short, The Last Temptation of Hughie and Owenie by Tom Maguire. If you like McVities biscuits or have aspirations to staying a […]

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Well, it’s not Sunday any more, but while I’m trying to work out when exactly I should be sleeping having deplaned* from Ireland a few […]

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Where are my manners? It’s Sunday, a day of rest, so for what’s left of it, here’s your Sunday Short, Choppers by Paul Farran, an […]

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It’s Sunday, so relax and enjoy a short Irish film - Rory Bresnihan’s claymation fable for our times, Guy’s Dog, courtesy of YouTube.
I love everything […]

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