The story of Irish golf is as intriguing, contradictory and dramatic as the courses dotted along its coastline. The island is designed for golf. It has 3,500 miles of coastline, a landscape of granite and red sandstone mountains, unspoiled white-sand beaches, rugged cliffs that drop 400 feet to the sea and ancient dunes-all millions of years in the making. The lucky convergence of warm Gulf Stream currents, temperate weather, and lush vegetation help create one of the most spectacular golf settings on Earth. Over the course of three films, From Tee To Green explores the history, geography and cultural impact of golf on the island. The series is a journey from Irish golf 's mystical origins in Wicklow to the magical exploits of Harrington, McDowell, McIllroy and Clarke. Along the way there are great characters, tournaments won, tournaments lost, moments of great sporting drama and great financial crises - and it's all set against some of the most spectacular scenery anywhere on the ...

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Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.

A documentary about the history of Irish football from 1863 to present day

This wonderfully entertaining dance documentary tells the extraordinary story of how Irish dance developed over centuries from a traditional peasant dance to a form that has taken the world by storm and is enjoyed by tens of millions. The film shows how Irish dance has both been influenced by and influenced the dance of many cultures and how it developed as an expression of resistance.

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

Story of Irish popular music from 1950 to the present day told by the artists, songwriters, producers and executives who made it all happen. It tells of the dramatic evolution from a grey, conservative culture to a vibrant, colourful music scene which has an enormous popularity and influence completely out of proportion to the size of the country.

Tired of her bad luck, Fiona takes her mom on a trip to Ireland to turn things around where she meets a charming single dad who helps her make her own luck.

'The story of an Irishman's attempts to save his ancestral home through the fortunes of his racehorse.' (Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive)

This musical celebration charts the lives and careers of some of the biggest selling acts in Irish rock, punk and pop from Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy to The Undertones and U2. From the pioneers of the showbands touring in the late 50s through to the modern day, the film examines their lineage and connections and how the hardcore, rocking sound of Belfast merged with the more melodic, folky Dublin tradition to form what we now recognise as Irish rock and pop.