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Best Irish Movies of All Time
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The Irish have always had a reputation as storytellers and the big screen has provided us with another medium to tell our myths, legends and our history.
Here we go through the best and some of the worst that Irish cinema has to offer.
I Went Down
The Commitments
In the name of the father
The Snapper
Eat the peach
An Calin Cuin
Rawhead rex
Fatal Deviation
Grabbers
Taffin
Leap Year
Intermission
Crushproof
War of the buttons
Michael Collins
Angela’s ashes
The Field
Garage
Song of the sea
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Into The West
The Quiet Man
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