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.
Behind the camera
2026We Only Want the Earth
Director & Writer
2026The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones
Director
2024The Irish Question
Director
2024The Days of Trees
Director & Writer
2023An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy
Director
2023The United Irishmen
Director
2023The Seven Ages of Noël Browne
Director
2022Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
Director
2022Ghosts of Baggotonia
Director
2020The Great Book of Ireland
Director
2018The Meeting
Director & Writer
2017Meetings with Ivor
Director
2016Unless
Director & Writer
2014A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators
Director
2013Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
Director & Writer
2004Timbuktu
Director
2002The Ghost of Roger Casement
Director
2001Zulu 9
Director
1997All Souls' Day
Director
1988The Road to God Knows Where
Director
The Yellow Bittern
Director