Summary: In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGSummary: A truly inspiring story of one ordinary family's extraordinary journey. An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SHISummary: Set in 1950s rural Ireland, this is the searingly truthful story of embittered ex-IRA soldier Michael Moran, a brutal, domineering patriarch. Widowed and desperate to keep his family together, he succeeds only in driving his children from him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AMOHill, Conleth
Summary: Follows the daily activities of PJ Collins, a reclusive police officer who fills his days with comfort food and half-hearted police work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Distribution Solutions 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOLSummary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ALFSummary: The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HANSummary: Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly. Set within the fascinating historical period of postmortem portraiture, this darkly comic series blends murder mystery with delightfully macabre humor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEASummary: Ballykissangel has become a huge international hit since first hitting UK television screens in 1995, and continues to win millions of fans from across the world. This collection include every episode of this beloved BBC classic, full of Irish charm, quirky characters, strange shenanigans and tales of friendships, rivalry and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BALSummary: When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth-- which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HIDSummary: The United Kingdom decides to convert to the Euro in seven days. For the Irish criminal world, it's the biggest opportunity as there ever was. When a railway heist goes wrong and an enormous bag of money falls from the sky into the hands of Damian and Anthony, there's only one thing the two can do, spend it like there's no tomorrow. But Damian and Anthony have differing views on what to do with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MILSummary: Car dealer Frank Mallon is watching his life fall apart around him. His wife has left, his cars aren't selling, and his teenage daughter, Corrina is out of control. When bank manager Desmond Rane tells Frank he's in financial trouble and is about to lose everything , Frank devises a plan to fix his money problems while also getting revenge on the people making his life miserable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLESummary: William Franklin arrives at St. Judes, the only lay teacher among a staff of Catholic brothers. He is quick to realise that his teaching methods are opposed to those of the brothers. He succeeds in building a trusting relationship with the boys, which enables him to unlock their hidden talents and open their minds to the beauty of poetry. When two boys are severely beaten it is more than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TVA Films 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONSummary: An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GUA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GUA
Summary: When Anna's four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of Declan, a handsome and carefree local man, to get her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEASummary: Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stella 2013Summary: In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVESummary: An accountant's murder pulls DCI Tom Brannick into a hunt for a fortune that he's been hiding since his days as "Goliath." He is allied with the victim's widow, but as Tom tries to conceal their trail, he comes closer to being unmasked.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BLOSummary: Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoSummary: When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SONSummary: Self-destructive, pigheaded, and over-fond of the bottle, Jack Taylor (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey) is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. In his new trade, Taylor finds evil at every turn: the serial murders of young female factory...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: Jack Taylor is a former cop turned private investigator with little to show for his time in the Irish Guards. Few of his former colleagues have any regard for Taylor. The exception is his friend Garda Kate Noonan, though even she has to walk a fine line. Six months sober, Taylor takes on cases with the help of his young assistant, Cody, even while he worries about his elderly mother. Try as he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD JAC NOT RATEDSummary: "Self-destructive, pigheaded, and overfond of the bottle, Jack Taylor ... is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. In his new trade, Taylor finds evil at every turn: the serial murders of young female factory workers, a vicious vigilante group...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media Group 2013