Film
The Quiet Girl

Set in rural Ireland in 1981, this is the story of a young girl, Cáit (Catherine Clinch), who lives with her siblings on an impoverished smallholding with her boorish father and pregnant, harassed mother. She is sent away to spend the summer with Seán (Andrew Bennett) and Eibhlín Cinnsealach (Carrie Crowley), middle-aged cousins of her mother’s whom she has never met. Slowly, in the care of this couple, Cáit blossoms and discovers a new way of living, but in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

In Irish with subtitles

Winner of 7 categories in the Irish Film & Television awards, and the highest-grossing Irish language film of all time.

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Key People:

Director: Colm Bairéad

Writer: Colm Bairéad, from the novella by Claire Keegan

Cinematography: Kate McCullough

Production Design: Emma Lowney

Music: Stephen Rennicks

Further Information

For further information, full cast and crew listings, trivia and reviews, please see the The Quiet Girl Page on IMDB.