A selection of the best Irish films to watch now, including My Left Foot, Intermission and The Wind That Shakes The Barley, as chosen by an Irish writer

The best Irish films and where to rent or buy them 

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The Guard

My Left Foot

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Sing Street

The Field

If you love Derry Girls you’ll adore Sing Street – an adorable coming of age story set in Dublin in the 1980s

Intermission

Into The West

Told with heartbreaking Irish pathos and the featuring amazing scenery (including a young Gabriel Byrne’s stupidly handsome face), Into The West is full of wit and grit.

Waking Ned Devine

The Magdalene Sisters 

The Commitments 

The Butcher Boy

Once

In The Name Of The Father 

We asked an Irish writer to chose some of the greatest Irish movies that deserve to be celebrated (and watched). Here are her picks. 

13 of the best Irish films (and no, P.S. I Love You is not on the list)

13 of the best Irish films to watch now (and no, P.S. I Love You is not on the list)