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Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Series of techniques and exercises to learn Irish dancing. Includes a new dance performance, entitled Blue by Jean Butler, a group jam session to the music of U2, and a behind-the-scenes look at one of Jean's workshops.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of unemployment, John Phillips finally lands a job. He's on top of the world, until he runs into a by-the-book cop. O'Malley cites Phillips for a busted muffler, and the man loses his job. The desperate Phillips loses his freedom as well when he robs a pawnshop and lands in the slammer. When O'Malley meets Phillips' crippled daughter, he begins to realize he should temper justice with mercy. A new man, O'Malley falls for Barbara's teacher...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (494 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joseph Armagh is a poor Irish immigrant who is determined to create a better life for his family. He arrives in America in the mid-19th century. Through personal struggle, heartache and perseverance, he becomes one the the wealthest and most powerful men in the country.
4) Mythology
Publisher
Verve
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James McParlan is an operative working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who is hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist organization, the "Molly Maguires". The Mollies operate within the improverished mining communities of Pennsylvania and are mostly Irish emigrants. McParlan is selected to infiltrate the organization to pose as a new member, but it quickly becomes apparent that the working conditions are...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. His starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....
7) Blown away
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an explosion jolts the city of Boston, bomb squad expert Jimmy dove is pulled out of an early retirement and into the most harrowing work of his career.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005-2010]
Physical Desc
13 DVDs (1,270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Along with all five seasons of one of the boldest, brashest series ever, this party pack contains outrageous bonus material that they wouldn't dare show on T.V. Joint Mac, Charlie, Dennie, his sister Dee, and their father Frank (Danny DeVito) at Paddy's Pub, where business as usual means sabotaging the bar down the street, selling coke for the mob and sleeping with each other's moms. Through it all, this wildly dysfunctional gang of friends will always...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (approximately 1,500 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father O'Malley is sent to a parish in lower class New York City to assist old, crusty pastor Father Fitzgibbon. Mrs. Featherstone is the housekeeper in the rectory. When he arrives, Father O'Malley meets his boyhood friend Tom Colwell, who is running the local community center.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1921, Kerry O'Shea, an American medical student living in Ireland, learns that his esteemed professor, Sean Lenihan, is also a leader in Ireland's rebel army. Even though Kerry's father and roommate have both been killed by British troops, he refuses to join the Irish rebellion. However, after Kerry is unjustly imprisoned and tortured by the British "Black and Tans," he fully commits himself to the cause of Irish freedom.
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (4 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Features many popular traditions that celebrate St. Patrick in Ireland, the United States and Canada. A brief historical biography of St. Patrick is provided as well as an overview of Irish immigration to North America.
13) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member, Bobby Sands, went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. The film focuses on Sands's final days. An unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard.
14) The devil's own
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Irish-American cop unknowingly brings in an IRA terrorist and tries to stop him before he destroys any more lives.
15) Wilde
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time, Red Jam, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
English
Description
As a school bus merrily speeds past an army caravan, it suddenly explodes. Stunned and horrified IRA member Martin Fallon flees. He had planted the bomb to kill British soldiers, not to kill innocent children. Now, Fallon seeks to escape his violent life against all odds.
17) The informer
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (99 min.) : silent, tinted black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Based on Liam O'Flaherty's popular Irish novel, this gripping thriller is set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922. When one of their number kills the chief of police, he goes on the run. But when he returns to Dublin he is cruelly betrayed by his onetime friend Gypo, who then has to battle his old friends as well as his own mounting guilt. Silent with English intertitles.
18) The boxer
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Freed from jail fourteen years after getting involved with the Irish Republican Army, Danny Flynn returns home to his Belfast neighborhood. Opening a gym and reconnecting with lost love Maggie, Danny's former life, in the person of his former IRA compatriots, comes back to haunt him.
19) The nightingale
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare's husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all. When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post suddenly to secure a captaincy up north. Unfamiliar with...
20) Odd man out
Series
Criterion collection volume 754
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds needed to continue its activities. During the hold-up, things go sour: Johnny is wounded, cannot make it back to the hideout, and disappears in the back-alleys of Belfast. Immediately, a large-scale man-hunt is launched, and the city is tightly covered by the constabulary,...
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