Dark Lies the Island is a 2019 Irish drama film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon from a screenplay adapted by Kevin Barry from his short story of the same name.

[1] It stars Peter Coonan, Charlie Murphy, Moe Dunford, Pat Shortt and Tommy Tiernan.

It premiered at the Dublin Film Festival on February 27, 2019, and went on general release in Ireland and the United Kingdom on October 18th of that year.

[2] In a review for The Irish Times, critic Donald Clarke praised the cast and cinematographer Cathal Watters but concluded "this impressive work fails to impose order on a too-busy melodrama that flails in a hundred directions without locating enough forward momentum.

[3] RTÉ's TV editor John Byrne in a 4-star review praised Coonan's "manic fervor" and Murphy's "Veronica Lake-like ice queen quality".