No luck required, just great storytelling! Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Kanopy’s film collection that highlights Ireland’s charm, history, and heart! Stream now at kanopy.com/category/10852.
Allan Miller’s affecting documentary tells Behan’s story through the people who knew him best – his wife, brothers, I.R.A. comrades and fellow drinkers in the Dublin pubs, where he seemed most at home. Their recollections sketch a portrait of a wild Irishman, a storyteller and a lair, who was not able to communicate until he’d had a drink – or three.
Adapted from James Joyce’s Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consciousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
Brendan Behan’s famous memoir about his troubled youth formed the basis of this drama. Brendan is a 16-year-old boy from Ireland who loathes the British and is eager to do something about it. Brendan sails into Liverpool, but is discovered to be carrying the makings of a bomb; he’s soon placed under arrest and thrown into a borstal (British reform school), where he finds himself surrounded by a collection of tough-as-nails English delinquents.
A lonely priest’s housekeeper encounters a young Irish girl of exceptional promise.
Follows presenter Ciara Whelan as she travels around the Emerald Isle exploring the sights and sounds, history, culture and food that Ireland has to offer. Each episode focuses on a particular county and the people and places unique to it. Ciara meets a range of interesting and charming locals from chefs to musicians, historians to sports people. Both iconic locations and places off the beaten track are featured in a series that showcases this beautiful country.
Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cáit is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
