Shane Connaughton
Know for: Writing
Born: 1941-04-04
Place of birth: Redhills, Co. Cavan, Ireland
Also know as:
Ghostwood (2006)
Driven to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his father, New York psychologist Ed Hunter travels to a remote village in the West of Ireland...
The Miracle (1991)
Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild...
The Playboys (1992)
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to...
The Englishman's Wife (1990)
A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless,...
Ireland, Mother Ireland (1971)
A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, killed for a dream of freedom and died because they...
The Rank and File (1971)
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike,...
Four Days in July (1984)
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Enemy (1976)
Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song (2002)
Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member...
Shergar (1986)
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise...
Redemption of a Rogue (2021)
Jimmy carries a leather, black doctor’s bag around with him containing the rope he plans to hang himself with. He returns home to the fictional...
Needle (1990)
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS...
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic...
Tara Road (2005)
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
The Playboys (1992)
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to...
The Run of the Country (1995)
An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.
The Run of the Country (1995)
An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.
The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
The Dollar Bottom (1981)
Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting...
The Lilac Bus (1990)
The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
River Queen (2005)
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between...
Every Picture Tells a Story (1984)
James Scott's biopic of his father William Scott, his childhood and his origins as a painter.