Bob Quinn

A poitín (moonshine) maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí (police) in Connemara in the west of Ireland.

Documentary about the Irish, dispelling the myth that they are all of pure Celtic heritage, but showing them as the mix of races they really are, and portraying the island not as the remote outpost of Europe most people think it is, but as a busy meeting place for seafaring traders of the Atlantic all through history.

During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down. Remade as "The Bishop's Story" in 1994.

A precursor to Reefer and the Model, Waterbag involves the relationship between two fishermen and a pregnant woman, and ends with an apparently self-induced miscarriage.

During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down.

Cinegael is an independent cinema set up by filmmaker Bob Quinn in the 1970's, in which his son, the director Robert Quinn, lived as a child. The film focuses on the contribution the cinema made to the cultural life of the community, but also to the Irish film industry itself, acting as a home for, and catalyst to, radical ideas and attitudes within the film industry at the time.

A group of Ballyfermot schoolboys attempt to rob an orchard in the more affluent, nearby suburb of Chapelizod.

The film follows Connemara emigrants in London who make a living fly-tipping. In the 1980s as Thatcher's entrepreneurial friends were demolishing buildings almost as fast as they were constructing new ones, tons of rubbish would be carried to designated sites outside the city causing chaotic and time-consuming traffic conditions (very unprofitable!). Enter the fly-tippers! these men and their lorries didn't waste time in traffic, they found the nearest empty space for dumping, the local authority had to clean up the mess, the builders and contractors turned a blind eye.

A group of unruly Irish stage actors refuse the orders of their British director as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s eighteenth-century keen about the the life and death of Irish rebel Art Ó Laoghaire.

Inspired by Cliodhna Cussen, Cloch is an evocation of the art of stone-carving, drawing on the work of James McKenna and on the Kilkenny sculpture workshop of 1975. Bob Quinn said about the project, “The main aspect that interested me was the physical relationship between a person and inanimate material.”

Profiles veteran Irish photographer, Colman Doyle, who has documented almost every major historical event in Ireland over a 50 year period.

Bob Quinn’s seminal documentary, deemed too disturbing for television viewers and not broadcast until 10 years after its completion, reveals life inside the Atlantis Commune at Burtonport, Co. Donegal where its members, The Screamers, led by English woman Jenny James, practised Reichian methods of extreme emotional self-expression.

An artist attempts to draw but has difficulty reconciling what he sees with what he hears.

Bob Quinn's 'Bog Graffiti' explores the relationship between humankind and nature, addressing the issue of climate change. Bob Quinn said: 'To paint images on granite rocks in the wet and windy landscape of Conamara would seem to be a folly. Foolishness also to plant saplings on the same bogscape – it is four thousand years since the place was fully clothed in trees. But then to turn the wood into grotesque figures must be considered perverse. Or perhaps a parable? We are part of the cycle of the natural world. This film notes the passing beauty of a tiny planet before we destroy it.'

Bob Quinn's 1981 film on the decline of the Gaeltacht, written and presented by Desmond Fennell.

A documentary on a sean-nós singing seminar that took place in An Spidéal in Conamara. Filmed in 1981 by Bob Quinn for RTÉ's Aisling Gheal series.

A Documentary Tribute to Donal McCann. The basis of this documentary was the first and only public interview given by the actor. It happened at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 1998 where McCann enthralled the audience in the Town Hall with humour and frankness, his insights into art and life, success and failure, the mistakes that became masterstrokes, the performances that touched on the spiritual. Gerry Stembridge was his accomplice for the two hours. Bernardo Bertolucci, John Turturro, Pat Laffan, Lelia Doolan, Hugh Leonard, Gabriel Byrne, Sinéad Cusack, Neil Jordan, Joan O'Hara, Jim Sheridan, Sebastian Barry, Michael D. Higgins, Robert Ballagh all talk about the man they knew, admired and tried to understand. This is an attempt to reveal the personality that lay behind the art of one of the great actors of our time. Donal McCann died in July 1999, age 56. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann.

Before the term was familiar in Ireland, Joe MacAnthony was an 'investigative reporter'. As early as 1974 he was revealing the corruption in the Dublin Planning process. Nothing was done! MacAnthony was 'encouraged' to leave the Sunday Independent and became unemployable in Dublin. He took his family to Canada. There he became an award-winning TV producer and a successful novelist.

Luke is an alcoholic and a petty thief. Once a talented drummer, he is now busking on litter bins and strumming Rossini on his teeth. Estranged from his wife and son, he becomes obsessed with a girl that reminds him of his deceased daughter. The girl is a soprano in a choir, which Luke wheedles his way into and is given a chance to play percussion for them. The film is called a 'small opera' because operas are usually tragic, but Luke is a real statistic in modern Ireland. Audrey Corbett directs the exquisite music of the 70-strong Galway Baroque Singers

Budawanny was filmed on location on Clare Island, Co. Mayo. Exactly twenty years before, Bob Quinn had made a half-hour documentary on the daily lives of the inhabitants. It is interesting to compare the factual and fictional treatments of the same community.