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25 years of Irish Film - through Film Ireland covers

The magazine for Irish film buffs is a quarter of a century in the business…

FILM IRELAND – Ireland’s longest-publishing film magazine – is celebrating a quarter of a century in business this year.

For an oversight of the film industry in Ireland, its successes and challenges over the past 25 years, it’s hard to find a better chronicler than the publication which started life as Filmbase News in May 1987. That name refers to the fact that it is published by Filmbase, a not-for-profit resource centre for filmmakers in Dublin’s Temple Bar.

Film Ireland has kindly provided us with a selection of covers from its issues through the years – you may recognise a landmark Irish movie or two in there. For a more indepth search of their archive, click here.

Latest Irish film news is also available on filmireland.net and the latest edition of Film Ireland is available to buy from Filmbase on Curved Street, Dublin and at major newsagents. You can also subscribe on a special offer for one year here.

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  • September/October 1987

    Contents: Frankie and Johnny • Video nasties legislation • Cork Film Festival • InterCeltic Festival • Dublin Film Festival • Derry Film and Video Collective • Michael Algar interview (I)
  • April/May 1988

    Contents: Barry Devlin interview • Telefís Three • Distribution in Ireland • The Courier round table • Fast Forward report • Eisenstein editing • New Zealand diary (II).
  • December 1993/January 1994

    Contents: 1993 Review • Jim Sheridan interview (In the Name of the Father) • Morality plays of John Woo • Imagining Ireland seminars report • MEDIA Ireland supplement • Steve Bernstein interview (Como Agua Para Chocolate)
  • April/May 1996

    Contents: Teilifís na Gaeilge • David Blake Knox, RTÉ’s Assistant Director of Programmes, interview • Post-production facilities in Ireland • Short Cuts in Focus • Women in Film and Television profile
  • October/November 1996

    Contents: Michael Collins • John T. Davis interview (The Uncle Jack) • Movie Business in LA • ‘Projecting the Nation: National Cinema in an International Frame’ conference issues • John Sherlock interview
  • October/November 1997

    Contents: Cork Film Festival preview • I Went Down: Rob Walpole & Paddy Breathnach interview; Conor MacPherson interview; Brendan Gleeson career • Alan Gilsenan interview (All Souls’ Day) • Colin Bateman interview (Divorcing Jack) • Assistant Sound Editor
  • December 1997/January 1998

    Contents: One day in Craggy Island • Carine Adler interview • Resurrection Man: Stuart Townsend interview; Eoin MacNamee interview (book) • Shorts at Cork Film Festival report
  • October/November 2001

    Contents: Disco Pigs: Kirsten Sheridan & Cillian Murphy interviews • All About Reality Issue: DV filmmakers at the Genoa G8 summit: Eamonn Crudden, Wolfe Fishbourne & Rowan Dempsey interview; We Are Not Warriors; Alan Clarke retrospective
  • January/February 2004

    Contents: Bloom: Director Sean Walsh and distribution company Tribal Films interviews • Denys Arcand interview (The Barbarian Invasions) • Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland • Kerry Film Festival report • UGC Cinemas • Abbas Kiarostami interview
  • March/April 2007

    Contents: Getting to the heart of John Carney’s Once • Low-Budget Dystopia • catalystproject: a new scheme to produce low-budget films • A day on the set of Graham Cantwell’s Anton • Machinima: How to make films using computer software • Stunt co-ordinator Donal O'Farrell
  • January/February 2008

    Contents: An overview of how Irish cinema has dealt with the erotic • Homosexuality, Trauma and the Cosmopolitan Queer • All about shooting sex with Paddy Breathnach, Lenny Abrahamson and Colm McCarthy • Film Ireland‘s Sex Survey • Irish Film Censor John Kelleher interview • The slippery question of Irish porn • Female Desire in Contemporary Irish Cinema • To do a sex scene or not to do a sex scene? Actor Pauline McLynn’s musings
  • Out now: Autumn 2012

    Contents: 1970s Belfast punk scene recreated in new film, Good Vibrations - director Konrad Begg on his Fleadh premiere - Paul Duane's Very Extremely Dangerous doc - Gerard Barrett's debut feature Pilgrim Hill - Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe on Element Pictures' plans for the future - actor Martin McCann on being Bono and Shadow Dancer.

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    Jun 19th 2019, 2:05 AM

    The Mr Magoo of Irish politics. Blundering from crisis to crisis. College dropout, never had a real job in his life. Google him.
    Overseeing the biggest employer in the country with a 17 billion budget. What could go wrong?
    Problem is people are suffering and dying under his watch. Billions for a childrens hospital in wrong place. Just like former Health Minister and his patron Varadker the kylie Minogue supplicant. All show, blow and bluster.
    Just like FF who ruined us, the labour party who colluded, the Shinners who have been found out, the Independents who have been exposed as hacks. The Greens outmanoeuvred by FF.
    The others are margin off error groupings.
    Despair!

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    Jun 19th 2019, 8:09 AM

    @Honey Badger: Why, what would you do?

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    Jun 19th 2019, 8:53 AM

    @Honey Badger: I respect your efforts if that were to happen I sincerely hope it doesn’t. With respect you would be wasting your time and money this Government has it all sown up .

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    Jun 19th 2019, 4:10 AM

    Move that hospital into a new facility on the proposed site of the children’s hospital on the mater grounds. There’s lots of land there that can be used.

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    Jun 19th 2019, 6:05 AM

    HSE Estates must the most incompetent section of the HSE. Have they anyone experienced in building ?

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    Jun 19th 2019, 9:32 AM

    Absolutely amazing that harris is still in that job. And its not in any way a compliment, its a total disgrace thats he’s not being dealt with (ie: booted out), and its a tragedy for everybody involved.

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    Jun 19th 2019, 8:21 AM

    This hospital isn’t going to make a dam bit of a difference to the health service. I do understand we need it but we need 4 more also, prisons, schools , infrastructure and more important affordability housing not hand out housing

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    Jun 19th 2019, 7:11 AM

    But wouldn’t that be the right thing to do?

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    Jun 20th 2019, 5:49 AM

    Minster should get a personality……..

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    Jun 19th 2019, 10:17 AM

    You have to ask how this clown gets such a job. He has no qualification whatsoever. The resulting mess and excuse after excuse underline his inability to do his job

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