You can own your own copy of the following Bob Quinn films.

BUT

If you just want to borrow one, they are all available FREE in the following Public Libraries in Ireland:
Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dun Laoire/Rathdown, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Offaly, Roscommon, Tallaght, Waterford, Westmeath - as well as in the National Library and most 3rd level colleges.

(There's no catch - join and support your local library)

1975-2010

Digitally remastered Jan. 2010


(Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire)
Drama (Colour, 52 mins. 1975)

Thanks to all those who bought the limited edition and thus contributed to the digital remastering of this film which is now available at the reduced price of

€30.00 each inc.P&P

INFO

2008

Vox Humana

AWARDS:
Directors Choice (Boston Irish Film festival).
Best Original Approach (Skopje Music on Film Festival)
Audience Award (Galway Film Fleadh)

How not to make a fillum

€20.00

1981-1998

 

Atlantean


THE ATLANTEAN QUARTET

The seminal documentaries on Ireland's maritime relationship with North Africa & the Middle East.
Jacob's TV & Film Award
(Colour, 3 x 50 mins)

Including

Atlantean epilogue: Navigatio
Completing the Circle. Via the Baltic and the Russian rivers, the musical connection between the Irish and the Tatars. Also, how Charlemagne would not have existed without Arab silver.
( Colour, 50 mins)

€34.50 inc.P&P

1977-2007

POITÍN

Drama - The first feature film in the Irish language.

Digitally remastered on to 35mm with new music by Bill Whelan ("Riverdance"). Subtitled (Colour, 65 mins)



 

€29.50

1987

BUDAWANNY

A 'silent movie'. Donal McCann Best actor award at Troia Festival.
Drama (Colour / B & W, 80 mins)

Plus:

'The Island' - documentary shot on Clare Island (1966)


€29.50

Budawanny

2006
Con Tempo goes West


Music documentary on the ConTempo String Quartet and their impact as Galway's Ensemble-in-Residence, 2003-2006

€20.00

2002

The Emigrant Dance

Story of the an emigrant mecca, the Galtymore Ballroom, London.
(Gael Media, Colour, subtitled, 50 mins)

€24.50

2000

Splanc Deireadh na Gaeltachta


Last Spark of the Gaeltacht

History of the Civil Rights movement in Galway, with Donncha Ó h-Éallaithe
(Gael Media, Subtitled, 50 mins)

€20.00

1999
It Must Be Done Right

 


 

Documentary: Donal McCann - 'the world's greatest actor (Newsweek)' . His last public performance. Prod. De Facto films
(Colour, 50 mins)

€20.00

1997

Graceville


The 'Connemaras' in Minnesota. The amazing story of the Bishop and the peasants.
(Gael Media, Colour, 50 mins)

€20.00

1992

FROM Pobal in Deutschland
Conamara emigrants in Germany. (Gael Media, 6 X ½ hour)

AVAILABLE NOW :

'Morris Minor'

Ireland's emigrant Trapp Family

€20.00 each

Pobal in London
Conamara emigrants in the UK.
(Gael Media, 6 X ½ hour)

€20.00 each

 

AVAILABLE NOW:     Fly-tippers


 1976



SELF-PORTRAIT WITH RED CAR


Experimental, with artist Brian Bourke
A 'car'toon
(Colour, 25 mins)

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€20.00

 

Lillipup

Experimental, with painter Brian Bourke

(Colour, 20 mins)

 

 

€20.00
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1978

Listen!

Experimental, with composer Roger Doyle

€20.00

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1981

Laetha Deire na Gaeltachta

"Last Days of the Gaeltacht"

(Spirit of the Festival Award - Celtic Film Festival)

With Desmond Fennell

€20.00

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1979

The Family


1979 Documentary on the 'Screamers' in Donegal. So disturbing that RTE would not show it until 1993.

(Colour, 27 mins)

€20.00

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1979

Hooker Music
A series of six traditional music documentaries shot on board a Galway sailing boat - the Hucaer or Bád Mór. Features De Danann, Stockton's Wing, Mary Bergin..

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Miscellaneous Documentaries

The Master Musicians of Jajouka
Film Portraits of Josie McDonncha, Flann O Riain, Edward Delaney, RHA., Peadar Lamb, Pearse Hutchinson, Tony MacMahon, Na h-Ancairí.

The Isle of Man
A Jehovah in Galway
A Film Board for Ireland
(with National Film Board of Canada)
Vet on the Rocks
Turf Boats of Kinvara;
An Bealach Eile (Immigrants to Conamara)
Fág an Bealach (Coláiste na bhFiann);
Oireachtas na nGael


Numerous documentaries for RTE TV including:
Why Don't They Shoot People
(Berlin Internation festival, Prix Italia, 1966)
The Island
Missing, Believed Dead
Inside the Outsider
The Flowerpot Society
Shadowy Horses
Silent World
Puck Fair
Many Hands Make Life Work