Pleased to speak with director Alessandra Celesia last evening about her unique, powerful & thought-provoking film The Flats.. See it now Irish Film Institute A poetic hymn to the trauma of the Troubles Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Irish Film & TV Net Scannain #theflats

#OnThisDay 1798 United Irishmen take Bunclody, Wexford with artillery from Three Rocks ambush, forcing the garrison to retreat. However, in the town square, the UI are fired upon from barricaded loyalists. The garrison, now reinforced, returned & killed 400. #Ireland #History

IFI@Home | Alan Gilsenan: Roads to Recovery ifihome.ie/page/alan-gils…

Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Thoughtful obituary of Paul in the The New York Times Michael nytimes.com/2025/06/06/boo…

From Lenora Carrington’s estate, the artist with snake:

Happy Bloomsday… #bloomsday #jamesjoyce

‘L'Ami de mon amie’ (1987) Éric Rohmer.

Delighted to be nominated for this award alongside all these fine people and projects…

We Only Want The Earth. Galway Film Fleadh Thurs 10 July | 16:30 | Town Hall Theatre Tickets here: galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/we-onl…

Our film on James Connolly We Only Want The Earth is unveiled Galway Film Fleadh on July 10th Town Hall Theatre Yellow Asylum Films #jamesconnolly

“I think to make any film you have to have a curiosity.” -Director Alan Gilsenan speaks about We Only Want the Earth

W.B. Yeats & the Natural World 🪴 | Collab: 66th Yeats International Summer School @yeatssocietyirl 📆 Thurs, 24 July at 6.30pm: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev… Join us at the National Library of Ireland to experience an opening address via livestream. An evening of poetry, vision & the natural world.

Alan Gilsenan's opening remarks begin with a reading of a Paul Durcan (RIP) poem.

Pleased to be working with these two talented people ⁦KilkennyArtsFestival⁩ next week.. Such a profound subject.. From Savita Halappanavar to Anne Bonny: Damning indictment of the treatment of women through the ages shows its always been this way irishtimes.com/culture/stage/…

A perfect little book. In a single afternoon or evening, it’ll reconfigure your brain, your soul, and, if you’re a writer, your sense of what’s possible in 116 pages.

William Faulkner jotting something down.

Honoured to direct Paul Muldoon & Kamala Sankaram’s operatic conjuring CUSTOM OF THE COAST KilkennyArtsFestival World premiere on March 8th. Grateful to our amazing cast & CRASH ENSEMBLE The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Yellow Asylum Films #savitahalappanavar #annebonny #irishopera #kilkenny

A pair of James Joyce's glasses, believed to have been worn by him while he was writing "Ulysses," sold at auction for over $19,000.

Great working with this man…