Alan Gilsenan
- Known for
- Directing
Alan Gilsenan is an Irish writer, filmmaker and theatre director. His documentaries, which range from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, are distinguished by intellectual rigour and creative innovation, allied to a seemingly unquenchable curiosity about history, literature, culture and society – both in Ireland but also in the wider world. His highly eclectic oeuvre of over 40 films for cinema and television also provides an invaluable compendium of reflection on Irish minds and Irish matters over four decades.
Filmography
The Yellow Bittern TBA
Director
- Clannad: The Farewell / An Scaradh Deireanach
Clannad: The Farewell / An Scaradh Deireanach TBA
as Director
- Michael D. – Power to the People
Michael D. – Power to the People TBA
as Director
The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones 2026
Director, Cinematography
We Only Want the Earth 2026
Director, Writer
The Days of Trees 2024
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The Irish Question 2024
Director
The United Irishmen 2023
Director
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy 2023
Director
The Seven Ages of Noël Browne 2023
Director
Ghosts of Baggotonia 2022
Cinematography, Director
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici 2022
Director
The Great Book of Ireland 2020
Director
The Meeting 2018
Writer, Director
Meetings with Ivor 2017
Director
Unless 2016
Director, Writer
A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators 2014
Director
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay 2013
Writer, Director
Timbuktu 2004
Director
The Ghost of Roger Casement 2002
Director
Zulu 9 2001
Director
All Souls' Day 1997
Director
The Road to God Knows Where 1988
Director
Credits from TMDB.