About
Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His documentaries, which range from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, are distinguished by intellectual rigour and creative innovation, allied to a seemingly unquenchable curiosity about history, literature, culture and society – both in Ireland but also in the wider world. His highly eclectic oeuvre of over 40 films for cinema and television also provides an invaluable compendium of reflection on Irish minds and Irish matters over four decades.
Filmography
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones2026 · Director, Cinematography
We Only Want the Earth2026 · Director, Writer
The Days of Trees2024 · Director of Photography, Writer
The Irish Question2024 · Director
The United Irishmen2023 · Director
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy2023 · Director
The Seven Ages of Noël Browne2023 · Director
Ghosts of Baggotonia2022 · Director, Cinematography
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici2022 · Director
The Great Book of Ireland2020 · Director
The Meeting2018 · Director, Writer
Meetings with Ivor2017 · Director
Unless2016 · Director, Writer
A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators2014 · Director
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay2013 · Director, Writer
Timbuktu2004 · Director
The Ghost of Roger Casement2002 · Director
Zulu 92001 · Director
All Souls' Day1997 · Director
The Road to God Knows Where1988 · Director