Christy
Wednesday, 19 November  |  8pm
Admission: €8 (paid at door)
​This month's offering, the terrifically warm and involving Christy, is arguably the best Irish film of 2025.  When 17-year-old Christy is kicked out of his foster home for attacking his foster brother, he is released into the care of his half-brother Shane, and back to the community of his childhood. Having tragically lost his mother when he was very young, he has no sense of connection to the place or its people and he struggles to settle in. But slowly the local community starts to connect with Christy, helping him finally feel like he may have found somewhere to call home. Brendan Canty’s debut feature, based on a short of the same name, is a love song to the truest sense of community, with moments of pure joy and fun that break through the bleaker moments.
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Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
​Wednesday, 22 October  |  8pm
Admission: €8 (paid at door)
Filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea (Pray for our Sinners) brings us author, playwright and socialite Edna O’Brien, as she reflects upon her life and career with astounding candidacy. Defying Ireland’s patriarchal, religious constraints with her sexually frank 1960 debut novel, The Country Girls, she became a literary sensation. Vilified in Ireland and escaping an abusive husband, O’Brien was empowered and prolific, controversial and sexually open, a taboo breaking powerhouse who made a fortune and lost one.

Completed shortly before her death last year, Blue Road features extracts from O’Brien’s journals (read by Jessie Buckley); contributions from, among others, Gabriel Byrne and Anne Enright; and a remarkable final interview with Edna, aged 93, as she reflects with dignity and candour on her extraordinary life
Tickets €8 (at door)
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St. Brendan's St, Portumna