Irish Film & Television Index
The Irish Film & Television
Index is a constituent element of the Irish Film & TV Research
Online website. Like the other areas of this site, the project is
based in the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin.
The Irish Film & Television
Index is documenting all Irish-made cinema and major television
productions as well as Irish-themed audio-visual representations produced
outside of Ireland. The database, which has drawn on the archival and
paper records from many of the world's
leading film archives and specialist libraries, including ones in Ireland,
Britain, the USA, and Australia, has almost 40,000 titles.
Under the Irish Research Council
for the Humanities and Social Sciences'
Major Grant Scheme, 2003-05,
an award was made to update Kevin Rockett's The Irish Filmography (1996)
and to document all major non-fiction films, including newsreels, and
animation, made for cinema and television. Additional to IRCHSS and
Trinity College Dublin support, the project has received the sponsorship
of the Higher Education Authority's
North South Programme for Collaborative Research, 2003-06, and Bord
Scannan na hEireann/Irish Film Board, 2006.The Irish Film Institute's
archive and library have also played an important role
in the realisation of this project.
Researchers are able, almost
instantly, to find, for example, an Irish-theme film; its cast list
or production personnel; read a synopsis of its content; establish what
has been written about it; compile, through a keyword search, a list
of complementary titles; and then find out where a copy of the film
may be found. Furthermore, the Irish Film & Television
Biographies and Irish Film & Television
Bibliography databases can add further depth to such searches.
Supervising editor: Professor
Kevin Rockett, Trinity College Dublin.
Senior Researcher: Eugene Finn