Do you want to get in the mood for St. Patrick’s Day, but you don’t want to watch The Quiet Man (again)? We’ve put together a list of movies that take place in Ireland but they are definitely not The Quiet Man. We’ll stop mentioning The Quiet Man. Clicking on the picture or title in which you are interested, will take you to the catalog where you can place a hold or check the availability before you come into the library.

Secret of Roan Inish

Waking Ned Devine

Michael Collins

Dancing at Lughnasa

Ryan’s Daughter

The Boxer

The General

Once

Angela’s Ashes

Far and Away

Bloody Sunday

The Magdalene Sisters

Tristan + Isolde

The Crying Game

The Brylcreem Boys

Barry Lyndon

Riverdance

Lord of the Dance

Evelyn

Finian’s Rainbow

Ready to try something else related to Jane Austen? We found so many different books and movies about her novels and her life, and we want to share them all with you! Jane was such an interesting lady (as well as being able to write really well) that various authors have written whole novels and series of novel with Miss Austen herself as a character. Most recently in the news is Miramax Films’ movie Becoming Jane starring Anne Hathaway. The library owns several newly released to DVD copies, which you can request.

Next on the list of Jane-as-a-character novels, is the mystery series by Stephanie Barron. Barron writes in the preface to her first book in the series that she has “found” a number of journals written by Jane Austen about her adventures as a detective. Each of the nine books in the series is supposed to be one of these journals. Try the first, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor.

You may also be interested in one of these others:

Anitpodes Jane by Barbara Kerr Wilson. 1984.

Just Jane: A Novel of Jane Austen’s Life
by Nancy Moser. 2007.

The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen
by Syrie James. 2008.