€5 or €8 double-bill
Friday 17th June
- 18:30 | Da by Hugh Leonard
Starring Martin SheenA New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his Da. While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father’s spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Preceded by a humorous Flann O’Brien short film adaptation The Martyr’s Crown, starring David Kelly, Eva Birthistle and Brian Cox.
- 21:00 | The Butcher Boy by Pat McCabe
Director Neil Jordan, starring Stephen ReaYoung Francie has a lot to worry about, what with his alcoholic father and mentally unstable mother, and his unceasing battle against his arch-enemies, the Nugents. Not to mention Our Lady and the aliens…
Q&A Stephen Rea and Neil Jordan with Edel Coffey
Saturday 18th June
- 18:30 | Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Starring Andie MacDowell and Stephen ReaTwo women- one American, one Irish swap houses and alter the course of their lives.
Preceded by The Wednesdays, the award-winning short film directed by Conor Ferguson. In the Autumn of your days, some people will do anything to put a smile on their face.
- 21:00 | A Film With Me In It by Mark Doherty
Starring Dylan Moran
An actor down on his luck ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands. Together with his friend they hatch a hilarious plan of treating their predicament like a film scenario and try to rewrite the day. Book Now
Sunday 19th June
- 18:30 | The Eclipse written and directed by Conor McPherson
Starring Aidan QuinnIn an Irish seaside town, a widower meets a visiting horror novelist and starts to see ghosts all around him.
Q&A Conor McPherson - 21:00 | Brothers directed by Jim Sheridan
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman & Tobey MaguireA young man comforts his older brother’s wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.
Q&A Jim Sheridan in conversation with Dave Fanning
