[1][2] In 1975, he received a Jacob's Award for his direction of three television plays broadcast on RTÉ in the previous year: Aleksei Arbuzov's The Promise, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal ("La Répétition ou l'Amour puni").
A one-hour drama-documentary re-telling/ examination of the 1937 Kirkintilloch Bothy disaster in which ten young "tattie hokers" all from Achill Island, lost their lives.
Viewed against the background of seasonal migration from Achill and Donegal; and in the context of racist attitudes then and now.
Funded by TG4, The Gaelic Broadcasting Committee and Bord Scannán na hÉireann (the Irish Film Board).
Funded by RTÉ, Bord Scannán na hÉireann (The Irish Film Board), The Gaelic Broadcasting Committee, Scotland.
Personal narratives detailing and examining the lifelong effect of physical, mental and sexual abuse in Irish Industrial Schools between the 1940s and 1970s.
Disturbing excavations of the almost unthinkable human realities of the Great Famine-set and filmed within the scenario of a Famine Poorhouse.
In recounting the story of Christine Buckley, an Afro-Irish woman's search for her parents the film exposed the regime of cruelty that existed in the fifties and sixties in Goldenbridge Orphanage, run by the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin.
A 20-minute arts documentary examination of a location installation by Glen Dimplex nominee artist, Patricia McKenna.
Four 1-hour profiles of major Irish dramatists, Tom Murphy, Paul Mercier, Frank McGuinness and Graham Reid.
Leaving Ireland and journeying through the Baltic countries he uncovers the story of his family and the lost world of the Jewish shtetl.