Alan Gilsenan, Irish writer

Writer

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, director and film-maker.

A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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 - he won First Class Honours in Modern English and Sociology - Gilsenan received the inaugural A.J. Leventhal Scholarship. He has since made a number of award-winning documentary films about Ireland.

He is currently chairperson of the Irish Film Institute

Irish Film Institute

The Irish Film Institute is both a film theatre and a national body that supports Irish Film heritage. It maintains an archive of Irish films and provides education in film culture. It shows independent and foreign language films overlooked by commercial multiplexes at its cinema in the Temple Bar...

, a member of the Irish Film Board

Irish Film Board

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, and of the Board of the International Dance Festival Ireland

Ireland

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See also

• Fedlim Mac Giolla Seanáin
  Fedlim Mac Giolla Seanáin
  Fedlim Mac Giolla Seanáin Brehon lawyer and Canon lawyer, died 12th July 1507.Mac Giolla Seanáin was a member of an Irish brehon family of south Ulster and north Leinster, originally from what is now County Tyrone....
  
  , Brehon
  Brehon
  Brehon is the term in Gaelic-Irish culture for a judge. The Brehons were part of the system of "Brehon Law". The Brehons wore yellow robes when delivering verdicts. Several dozen families were recognised as hereditary brehon clans.-See also:* Mac an Bhaird...
  
   and Canon
  Canon law (Catholic Church)
  The canon law of the Catholic Church, is a fully developed legal system, with all the necessary elements: courts, lawyers, judges, a fully articulated legal code and principles of legal interpretation. It lacks the necessary binding force present in most modern day legal systems. The academic...
  
   lawyer, died 12 July 1507.

Director

• The Road to God Knows Where, 1988.
• God Bless America:Gore Vidal
  Gore Vidal
  Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...
  
  , 1995.
• All Soul's Day, 1997.
• God Bless America:Marsha Hunt
  Marsha Hunt
  Marsha Hunt may refer to:* Marsha Hunt * Marsha Hunt...
  
  , 1997.
• The Irish Empire, TV series documentary, 2000.
• Zulu 9, short film, 2001.
• The Ghost of Roger Casement
  Roger Casement
  Roger David Casement —Sir Roger Casement CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his British honours—was an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist....
  
  , director and writer, 2002.
• Sing On Forever, director and writer, 2003.
• Timbuctu, 2004.
• The Legend of Liam Clancy
  Liam Clancy
  William "Liam" Clancy was an Irish folk singer and actor from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. He was the youngest and last surviving member of performing group The Clancy Brothers. The group were regarded as Ireland's first pop stars...
  
  , director and writer, TV mini-series documentary, 2006.
• The Asylum, 2006.
• The Hospice, director and writer, 2007.
• Paul Durcan
  Paul Durcan
  Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish poet.-Early life:Durcan grew up in Dublin and in Turlough, County Mayo. His father, John, was a barrister and circuit court judge; father and son had a difficult and formal relationship. Durcan enjoyed a warmer and more natural relationship with his mother,...
  
  :The Dark School, 2007.
• The Importance of Being Irish, 2008.
• The Yellow Bittern:The Life and Times of Liam Clancy
  Liam Clancy
  William "Liam" Clancy was an Irish folk singer and actor from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. He was the youngest and last surviving member of performing group The Clancy Brothers. The group were regarded as Ireland's first pop stars...
  
  , documentary, 2009.
• Treasure of the Bogs, director and writer, 2011.

Other work

• Stories from the Silence
• Prophet Songs
• Between Heaven and Woolworths
• Emerald Shoes
• The Green Fields of France
• The Road to God Knows Where II
• Eh Joe
  Eh Joe
  Eh Joe is a piece for television, written in English by Samuel Beckett, his first work for the medium. It was begun on the author’s fifty-ninth birthday, 13 April 1965, and completed by 1 May...
  
  

Theatre productions

• The Patriot Game
  The Patriot Game
  "The Patriot Game" is an Irish ballad about an incident during the Border Campaign launched by the Irish Republican Army during the 1950s to bring about the reunification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland. It was written by Dominic Behan, younger brother of playwright Brendan...
  
  
• On The Outside/On The Inside
• The Balcony
  The Balcony
  The Balcony is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Since Peter Zadek directed its first production at the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1957, the play has attracted many of the greatest directors of the 20th century, including Peter Brook, Erwin Piscator, Roger Blin, Giorgio Strehler, and...
  
  
• Small Craft Warnings
  Small Craft Warnings
  Small Craft Warnings is a play by Tennessee Williams, an expansion of an earlier one-act play, Confessional, that was included in the Williams Dragon Country compilation of 1970...
  
  
• The Book of Evidence
  The Book of Evidence
  The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish author John Banville. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38-year-old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbour...
  
  
• What Happened Bridgie Cleary
• The Yellow Bittern

External links

• http://www.rte.ie/tv/theasylum/director.html
• http://tomtdowling.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/alan-gilsenan-director-the-10-most-important-rules-he-adheres-to-when-making-documentaries/
• http://www.state.ie/16751-film/interview-with-liam-clancy-and-alan-gilsenan
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319690/