This Other Eden is a 1959 Irish comedy drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Audrey Dalton, Leslie Phillips and Niall MacGinnis.

Mick Devereaux and Commandant Jack Carberry of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are meeting a British officer to negotiate a cease-fire.

Carberry walks down a deserted road and is suddenly fired upon by hidden Black and Tan soldiers.

Several years later, local Gombeen man McRoarty is attending a meeting of the Carberry Memorial Committee.

Crispin goes out to the hotel balcony and manages to calm the crowd by praising Ireland and promising to pay for a new statue.

The men at the hotel are horrified to find that Conor wishes to stand trial and make everything public.

McRoarty receives a phone call that a journalist is coming to Ballymorgan to investigate what happened to the statue.

Clannery blames the destruction on a faulty electrical cable lighting some explosives that he left near the statue.

British director and writer Muriel Box was the first woman to direct an Irish feature film, receiving the script for This Other Eden on 1 January 1959.

Box wrote in her diary that on the set of This Other Eden "for the first time that I can remember I looked around with genuine love and affection for the crew who were working with me and the pleasure which the artists gave me I have not experienced before in films".

[5] David Parkinson in the Radio Times called it "a curious film for Leslie Phillips to find himself in, this is an overwrought tale about the emotions that erupt when the statue of a long-dead IRA hero is blown up in the square of a sleepy Irish village....Phillips is fine...He is adequately supported by Audrey Dalton as his lover and Norman Rodway...but the film lacks the power of such Hollywood lynch dramas as Fritz Lang's Fury or William A Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident.