Alan Devine
Was Arthur Rudolph, a central figure in the first Moon Landing, also involved in war crimes involving the death of 20,000 slave labourers in World War 2?
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Driven to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his father, New York psychologist Ed Hunter travels to a remote village in the West of Ireland and finds a community that has been living in fear for centuries. He meets a mysterious girl who tells him that his father had been searching for the spirits of a mother and child who were buried alive in the nearby forest over 1000 years ago.
James and his dad Michael use Irish as a secret language to discuss their secret spy business. They must never let James' mum know about their covert missions. But soon everything will be thrown into the open and life will never be the same again...
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?
A retired soldier, tortured by the untimely death of his beloved wife and the apparent suicide of one of his friends, suspects foul play. Based on a novel by Sean Kelly.
