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Aisling Productions was founded in 2015 by Declan McGrath, a producer-director with over twenty-years experience as a film editor.

Declan also writes about cinema, including two books on screencraft, each one translated into five languages.

Recent credits include…

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A historical documentary with dramatic reconstruction for RTE and BBC, THE MAN WHO SAVED EUROPE (2016), follows Mary McAleese through five countries uncovering the story of the sixth-century Irish man who dreamt of uniting Europe.

The film premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2016 and subsequently sold to Canal Plus (France), TV2 (Denmark) and LRT (Lithuania). In 2018, it was screened at the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union in Brussels.

(produced and directed by Declan McGrath for Clean Slate TV)

An arts documentary for RTE and Oireachtas TV, A WOMAN”S PLACE (2018) tracks the painting of a portrait of all the female politicians in the Houses of the Oireachtas to mark the 100th anniversary of female enfranchisement.

(directed by Declan McGrath for EMM)

An observational documentary interwoven with animated sequences for BBC, MY FIGHT TO LIVE (2019) follows an airline crash victim’s struggle to walk again for the first time in thirty years.

(directed by Declan McGrath for EMM)

A sports documentary for TG4, THE UNBREAKABLE BOND, tells the story of an under-age football team struck by tragedy who go on to become the most successful minor team in the history of Gaelic football.

(directed by Declan McGrath for EMM)

THE OCCUPATION tells the story of a group of Derry peaceniks who broke into the offices of one of the worlds biggest arm companies and then argued in court that they were morally entitled to do so.

(produced by Declan McGrath for Aisling Productions)

LÉIGH LINN is an interactive app encouraging the reading of literature in the Irish language.

(produced by Declan McGrath for Aisling Productions)