Films, Books etc. about Ireland for Foreign Students

Cool_CM

Not sure if this is the right forum for this, mods feel free to move.

I'm currently working as a language assistant in two Swiss Secondary Schools. I've been asked to compile a list of books and dvds, either set in or dealing with Ireland, for the school library as their current selection comprises of just Academic Texts and Travel Guides. I've made a basic list of the more obvious ones, but was wondering if anybody had any other suggestions?
Cheers

DVD:
Angela's Ashes
In the Name of the Father
Michael Collins
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Reeling in the Years Compilations
Bloody Sunday
Man About Dog

Books:
Famine Trilogy - Marita Conlon-McKenna
The Guns of Easter/Winter of Spies - Gerard Whelan
Frank O'Connor Omnibus
The Collected Poems of WB Yeats (as well as other Irish Poets)

spurious

The Commitments
Adam and Paul
Goldfish Memory

madziuda

Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
Burning Your Own by Glenn Patterson

mattyhislop

-Dubliners by James Joyce (great book and much easier to read than some of his others)
-Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
-The Van (the film)
-Once (the film)
-Father Ted

Cool_CM

Cheers for the suggestions

LornaG

Irish Films

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Mickybo and Me
Into the West
Inside i'm Dancing
The Field
In the Name of the Father
The Boxer
Intermission
The Crying Game
The Butcher Boy
Circle of Friends
My Left Foot
In Bruge
In America
The Quiet Man

As for books

The Irish in Us by Diane Negra - Has many short essays on being Irish
Heres the link on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Us-Irishness-Performativity-Popular/dp/0822337401/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300824330&sr=8-2


Good luck!

delta_bravo

If they are an advanced bunch I would really recommend The Rocky Road to Dublin. Amazing documentary.