Movies: Irish folklore

When his daughter is born with an affliction warned of in fable, a widowed father struggles to defy the violent superstitions of their rural community....

Edna O’Brien is interviewed by Russell Harty about her writing and her relationship with Ireland, as explored in her latest non-fiction book Mother Ireland....

“Songs of The Open Road” sheds light on the life of the award-winning Irish Traveller, Traditional Singer, Thomas McCarthy. Thomas comes from a long line of singers and musicians who kept the tradition of singing strong within the Irish Traveller com...

An excommunicated priest returns to his remote island community in a documentary, previously lost to time....

An obsessed alcoholic and his sceptic grandson search the Mourne Mountains for the fabled Banshee....

Brady has spent his life trying to outsmart the leprechauns and his big chance comes when he manages to capture one. Keeping the little man a prisoner, he starves the leprechaun until he reveals the secret of his wealth. Armed with this knowledge, Br...

The Cailleach was dependent on this one thing... every hundred years she must get back to the water and immerse herself so that she might become young again....