About us

Catherine (or Cathy) I am an English teacher in France. I work in a high school (15 to 18 year-old-students). It has been fun to work on Irish films, and I think I am going to use some of them in class.
Jan. I am an English teacher from The Czech republic. I teach at a primary school in Hradec Kralove, which is some 100 km from Prague. I love films and I really enjoyed working on this project! I also learned a lot of useful information and I hope you will learn some too.
Rosa. Hi I am an English teacher from Spain and I teach mainly adults. I think films are a great tool for learning and teaching and it was great getting to know more things on Irish cinema.

How many Irish films do we know?

IRISH TOP TEN FILMS

Are Irish actors regarded as celebrities in Ireland?

We are sure the quiz made you think about how many Irish actors and actressess you do know, click here and found out more.

If you want to know more on not that internationally well-known Irish actors click here.

OSCARS

Click on the pictures and you can watch the which oscars these people and films got.

Cinema-goers statistics

According to a survey conducted by TGI there were 1.5 million cinema goers, nowadays the number of cinema-goers has increased to 2.4 million.
At around ten euros each cinema ticket.....can you do the math?
_In the aforementioned survey 2/3 of the people older than 15 were heavy cinema-goers visiting theatres at least once a month. 

_The survey mentioned that, in general women tend to go to Romantic, Comedy and Disneylike films while men are more into action films.

We left Trinity College and asked 26 people about the last film the had watched, these are the results. Results

Junkies