Continuing with my version of Irish Culture Month, here are my favorite Irish movies. Closed captioning is suggested!
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast – Netflix
The story focuses on four friends from an all-girl Catholic High School. Twenty years later, they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their prior actions. I promise you will laugh out loud, even though some parts will keep you in suspense.
Steve – Netflix
You can’t not like a movie with Irish actor Cillian Murphy. Steve follows the head of a local school for troubled boys that is about to be closed due to budget cuts.
Obituary – Hulu
In this entertaining series, the obituary writer from the local newspaper has her pay cut. She only gets paid when she actually writes an obituary, no longer a salary. Her cut in pay forces her into drastic and funny measures to make sure that paycheck keeps coming.
The Banshees of Inisherin – Apple TV
Set in a remote island off Ireland, Colin Farrell struggles as his best friend shuts him out. Farrell tries to repair the friendship, but his friend’s response is rather gruesome.
In the Name of the Father – Apple TV
Daniel Day Lewis plays Gerry Conlon who gets falsely accused in a bombing of a pub in London. He, his friends and family are railroaded into pleading guilty for the crime. Fifteen years later, he is able to prove his innocence. The story of Conlon and the Guilford Four will break your heart. The movie was made in 1993 but still resonates today.
