• Director(s):

    DAMOISEL (MATHILDE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, SECONDE VAGUE PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide (except United States).

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

What does it mean to be from this island, with its chequered history, its fierce independence, and an identity that is so strong yet so elusive? The Irish refer to it as “Irishness”. With Avec Roddy Doyle, Robert Mcliam, Edna O'Brien and Colm Toibin.

To attempt a definition, and to try and pinpoint what binds this Irish nation, we take a trip to Ireland. Or rather to the Irelands – that of the North and that of the South – in the company of four major authors, Robert McLiam Wilson, the voice of the Catholic ghettos of Belfast; Edna O’Brien, scrutineer of the depths of rural and Catholic Ireland; Roddy Doyle, the writer of Dublin and its people; and Colm Tóibín, the traveller.
 
Bearing contrasting and complementary experiences of this “Irish being”, they ultimately pose the question of free attachment to a land, liberated from the weight of history, religion and nationalism, and driven simply by the recognition of a singular wit and eternal beauty.