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Get ready for Halloween with this short sci-fi movie from Irish Film Institute

Provided courtesy of The Irish Film Institute, Roy Spence's 'The Attack of the Saucer People' is the perfect sci-fi choice to get you ready for Halloween.

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Irish Film Institute wins second International Archive Award

The Irish Film Institute has been awarded again for its digital preservation advancements.

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Charming video visits Ireland’s lighthouses and the crews who maintained them

Before Ireland’s lighthouses were automated, they were tended by a crew, visited with fresh food and supplies just once every two weeks.

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Forget "Darby O'Gill and the Little People!" This film has all the leprechauns and banshees you need

A perfect Leprechaun/Banshee Irish movie to watch as we get closer to Halloween.

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Remarkable Irish priest who gathered extensive early film footage of American life

Take a look at the outstanding Monsignor Reid collection, which offers a remarkable glimpse into Irish and American life in the mid-20th century.

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Award-winning 1965 Irish film will reawaken your love for Yeats

The film takes the viewer on a journey around places with which the poet had a connection.

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Vacation of a lifetime: 1960s movie follows adventures of group of boys in Ireland

All the beauty of the Blackwater area in Co Cork explored by a group of young lads visiting from England and the continent.

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Rare clip of Irish rockers U2 performing in 1980s Dublin

This clip, provided by the Irish Film Institute, of U2 performing '11 O'Clock Tick Tock' in 1980s Dublin is wild.

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WATCH: The 'Golden Boy' of Irish art celebrated in documentary

Patrick Scott, the Irish 'Golden Boy' of art, won a National Prize at the Guggenheim International Award in 1960 and represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in the same year.

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WATCH: Newsreel footage of post 1916 Easter Rising Dublin

Historic newsreel footage shows the aftermath of the Dublin 1916 Easter Rising as "British troops march through the streets of Dublin."

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Michael Collins, Oscar Wilde, and Eugene O’Neill all celebrate their birthdays today

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Irish birth, marriage and death certificates now available online for free

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Thirty scary Halloween words in Irish

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