Simone Kirby (born 28 October 1976) is an Irish actress. She is known for playing Oonagh in the Ken Loach film Jimmy's Hall. Other credits include Irene O'Donnell in Peaky Blinders (2014), Marilyn Hull in Notes on Blindness (2016), Tyva Hightopp in...
Kneecap is a 2024 biographical comedy-drama film written and directed by Rich Peppiatt, depicting the rise of Kneecap, an Irish hip-hop trio from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The film stars the band members Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin,...
The Hole in the Ground is a 2019 supernatural horror film, directed by Lee Cronin, and written by Cronin and Stephen Shields. It stars Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, and James Quinn Markey. It follows a woman who begins to...
Pure Mule is an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly. Towns featured in the series include Banagher, Birr and...
Irish Blood is a 2025 television series starring Alicia Silverstone that premiered on 11 August 2025 on Acorn TV. In September 2025, the series was renewed for a second season.
The Buccaneers is a historical drama television series created by Katherine Jakeways, based on the unfinished novel of the same name by American novelist Edith Wharton, published posthumously in 1938. Set in the 1870s during the Gilded Age, it...
Jimmy's Hall is a 2014 drama film directed by Ken Loach. The film tells the story of the deportation to the United States in 1933 of Irish Communist Jimmy Gralton, who led the Revolutionary Workers' Group, a precursor of the Communist Party of...
Hidden Assets is an Irish-Belgian-Canadian crime drama developed by Peter McKenna and directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Kadir Ferati Balci and Mia Mullarkey. The series premiered on RTÉ One on November 7, 2021. The second season premiered on RTÉ on...
Barry Ward is an Irish actor. He began his career in the RTÉ/BBC series Family (1994) and Plotlands (1997), and the film Sunburn (1999). His films since include Jimmy's Hall, Blood Cells (both 2014), Extra Ordinary (2019), and Dating Amber (2020),...
You'll Never Believe Who's Dead is a 2026 Irish Christmas black comedy heist film written and directed by Dallan Shovlin and starring Peter Claffey, Michelle Fairley and Ardal O'Hanlon. The world premiere was on 10 July 2026 at the Galway Film...