Alan Gilsenan
Directing
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.
Known for
Unless
October 14, 2016
The Road to God Knows Where
October 4, 1988
All Souls' Day
October 18, 1997
Zulu 9
May 1, 2001
The Ghost of Roger Casement
May 9, 2002
Timbuktu
February 12, 2004
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
October 10, 2013
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy
November 2, 2023
The United Irishmen
November 12, 2023
The Seven Ages of Noël Browne
July 31, 2023
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
November 19, 2022
The Yellow Bittern
Behind the camera21
- 2026The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones Director, Cinematography
- 2026We Only Want the Earth Director, Writer
- 2024The Days of Trees Director, Director of Photography, Writer
- 2024The Irish Question Director
- 2023The United Irishmen Director
- 2023An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy Director
- 2023The Seven Ages of Noël Browne Director
- 2022Ghosts of Baggotonia Director, Cinematography
- 2022Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici Director
- 2020