Clare Monnelly

Small Things Like These

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

Fréwaka

Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.

The Head on Him

A story of a young, biracial boy who moves to Ireland in the '90s. He shaves off his Afro in order to fit in and it works...but then his Afro grows back, bigger and bigger, until it traps him in his room and he has to find a way out.

The Innkeeper

When a spirited eight-year-old lands the part of Innkeeper in the school nativity play, she battles her perfectionist teacher who insists that she "stick to the script" and refuse Mary and Joseph a room.

Headspace

As the tensions and frustrations of life in a community house start to close in on him, a young man with Down Syndrome realises he may have to cross a line to end a nightly disturbance.

Departure

Fiona’s life now revolves around her fading mother Mary’s care. As Mary grows weaker, Fiona accepts she must contact her estranged brother Mark to allow him to say goodbye.

Community Watch

A young Neighbourhood Watch officer must keep her community together amidst a series of grizzly local murders while flirting with the police officer assigned to the case.

Doineann

When Tomás returns to his remote island holiday home he discovers his reclusive wife and child have vanished. With nowhere to turn and a storm approaching, he is forced to place his trust in the small community's lone retired police officer, Labhaoise, to investigate. As the search takes an unexpected turn, some uncomfortable truths are revealed. Meanwhile the storm looms ever closer.

Electric Frank

1970's Dublin. Cowboy mad Evie, 11, has to decide whether she can forgive her father when he leaves home and is taken to hospital because of his drinking.

Ghost Light

An actor prepares for the opening night of Hamlet, watched on by a ghost in the wings.

Sleuth

Jake's family have been up to some suspicious behavior. Jake decides to do some detective work. As our Sleuth puts the pieces of the puzzle together he starts to think that maybe his Mam, Lisa, is conducting some espionage of her own.

Rip to the Rescue!

In post-apocalyptic Ireland, a suave American jet pilot tries to rescue a beautiful young woman from her domineering mother - but he soon finds out that around these parts, family can be deadly.

Christy

A sixteen-year-old-school dropout interviews for a job, but when he’s let down by his brother, he lashes back and looks to his friends for support.

Rosie

A mother strives to shield her young family from their new reality when their landlord sells the property and renders them homeless.

Croí

Two explorers from an ill-fated expedition in the Antarctic find shelter as they face one last, impossible leg of their journey to safety, and reveal the truth of what happened out on the ice.