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