Alan Gilsenan is an award-winning Irish writer, film-maker and theatre director. His diverse body of film work extends across documentary, feature films and experimental work. He is a former Chairperson of the Irish Film Institute, a member of the boards of both Screen Ireland and Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ. He has also recently
Alan Gilsenan is an award-winning Irish writer, film-maker and theatre director. His diverse body of film work extends across documentary, feature films and experimental work.
He is a former Chairperson of the Irish Film Institute, a member of the boards of both Screen Ireland and Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ. He has also recently been appointed Chairperson of Fighting Words, a national organisation that facilitates creative writing for children & young people.
His many film productions include The Yellow Bittern: The Life & Times of Liam Clancy; the feature film Unless; the experimental film A Vision: A Life of WB Yeats; The Ghost of Roger Casement; the documentary series Daniel O’Connell: Forgotten King of Ireland, a film installation inspired by Joyce’s Ulysses for Dublin’s MOLI (Museum of Literature Ireland) entitled ULYSSES | FILM and – most recently – Ghosts of Baggotonia, a film-poem that combines personal memory and the literary ghosts of bohemian Dublin.
Other more recent films include a feature documentary about radical politician Noël Browne – The Seven Ages of Noël Browne and An Buachaill Gealgháireach/The Laughing Boy as well as Paul Muldoon: Loathe is Lirici (A Life in Lyrics).
Gilsenan has just completed a new feature documentary dealing with memory and trauma called The Days of Trees.
Social Media links:
twitter: @AlanGilsenan1
Instagram: alangilsenan
