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It has been the fulfilment of a tantalising prospect: that filmmaker Pat ­Collins got to know novelist John McGahern personally while making the 2005 ­Ifta-winning ­documentary John McGahern: A Private World only enriches the former’s new screen adaptation.

Director Pat Collins on his adaptation of John McGahern’s acclaimed novel  That They May Face The Rising Sun, which powerfully explores life in rural Irel...

For Drimoleague filmmaker Pat Collins, the adaptation of That They May Face the Rising Sun was very much a labour of love, writes Esther McCarthy 

An Cailín Ciúin fans should start queueing now. Pat Collins has made an exquisite adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel

Pat Collins approaches John McGahern’s final novel about a couple’s return to rural Ireland with the attentive eye of a documentarian, encouraging viewers to adjust to a slower pace of life along with the film’s protagonists.

He made his acting debut in a film adapted from a John McGahern novel.

In this adaptation of the John McGahern novel, about a middle-aged man who has returned, with his wife, to the countryside of his childhood, makeshift friendships are forged and life’s grand rhythms observed

The latest news stories from the Irish Film & Television Network, on production, training opportunities, casting and much more.

After yet another year of incredible Irish cinema, there was tough competition in every category.

Director Pat Collins discusses his influences and his award-winning adaptation of McGahern’s final novel