People

DONALD TAYLOR BLACK - Producer/Director
CONSOLATA BOYLE - Producer

Company
Profile

 

Poolbeg Productions, which was originally founded in 1982, is one of Ireland's most well-respected independent film and television production companies. Our productions have been commissioned or transmitted by RTÉ, Channel 4, BBC, La Sept/ARTE, Ulster Television, PBS stations in the United States and many other international broadcasters. They have won a number of awards and have been screened at the Chicago, Melbourne, London, Hong Kong, Augsburg, Taormina, Sydney, Geneva, Wellington, Dublin, Cork, Foyle, and Celtic Film Festivals; at INPUT; and in retrospectives throughout the world. Our four-part series about life in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison, The Joy, received the highest ever ratings for any documentary series in the history of Irish television, when transmitted on RTÉ in January/February 1997. If You're Not In, You Can't Win!  was shortlisted for an ESB Media Award (TV Documentary) in 2004.
Skin in the Game (2012) was nominated for an IFTA in 2013 and won Best Documentary at the 2014 Boston Irish Film Festival.
New Gaels (2020) won an RTS Ireland Award in 2021
 

New
Projects


We are currently developing a feature documentary about the sculptor, John Behan

Selected
Projects

At the Cinema Palace - Liam O'Leary (1983);
Remembering Jimmy O'Dea (1985);
Sam Thompson - Voice of Many Men (1986);
Great Were Their Deeds, Their Passions, and Their Sports (1988);
Return to Paradise - The Belfast Celtic Story (1989);
In Flags or Flitters - Pictures of Dublin (1991);
The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (1993);
Irish Cinema - Ourselves Alone? (1995);
Hearts and Souls (1995);
The Joy (1997);
Ballyponza (1998);
Down To The Bedrock (1999);
Dear Boy - The Story of Micheál Mac Liammóir (1999);
Clongowes - The Greater Glory (2001);
If You're Not In, You Can't Win! (2003);
   [in association with Red Lemonade Productions];
Rebel Frontier (2004)
   [in association with Asylum Pictures];
Mary Kelly sa Bhearna Bhaoil (2008);
David Farrell - Elusive Moments (2008);
 Skin in the Game (2012).
Back to the Joy (2018)
New Gaels  (2020)
The All-Stars at 50 (2021)


KILLALANE,   LARAGH EAST,   GLENDALOUGH,    CO. WICKLOW,    A98 PN27,    IRELAND.
Telephone: +353 - 404 - 45909
Facsimile: +353 - 404 - 45893
e-mail: info@poolbeg.ie