secret of roan inish trailer

[CelticUteChick5]

THis is my favourite film ever.

[bheanrua]

@rainbowanime2 - stagevu

[wesnes2006]

Anyone know the opening music??

[maryann121]

@wesnes2006 "ROAN INISH THEME"

[Boby2264]

Meraviglioso!!!

[sweetmay73]

When I was 8, I bought this at a bait shop store in Mississippi.. this movie really has a special feel to it.

[meandyoumakeone]

I just randomly found a vcr tape of this movie and decided to look it up, it looks kind of cute. :p

[madirain]

omg best movie

[nthnbt7]

That trailer was from Little Women VHS 1995.

[cochranexyz]

This movie is a classic. It's a hidden one that's found its audience but it deserves to be bigger. If none of you have seen it, do so. It's wonderful.

[gelflingfaysuzanne]

My daughter is named after Fiona! We love that character!



[kardancer1]

Love this movie! It was one of my favorites as a child. I used to act out stories and change things around. This was one I liked to do, I always wanted to be Fiona.

[srobbinsc]

Actuakky looks really good!

[kardancer1]

@srobbinsc It is really good. It's actually really old. 

[VocaloidYOKO]

I love the way irish people talk! I love it! I sure wish i had a lovley accent like that. When Irish people sing, it's amazing~ when they talk it's amazing~ I think it's so cool!

[dilps]

Aye, just finally saw it, and I'm glad I finally got to. The black irish are some hard workin' fishermen, they are, perhaps I was in a life before, lad.

[sonnyjimslim]

Very powerful mythology when told by a 90+ old woman wearing a shawl, in the Gaelic language, as we looked out to sea as children. Patting my black head of hair and saying that one would recognise their own and try and take me was far more powerful than anything I could see in a film.

[xXlalinXx]

Why was the island evacuated?

[Bunnyslippers48]

My grandmother made me watch this movie when I was maybe nine years old. Not only did it scare me to death, I thought my grandmother, who also made me watch movies about homosexual romance and drug use and other things I did not comprehend at nine or ten years old, was crazy. I have a feeling I'd have a better appreciation of this film now. 

[Laura7AndSavanna4]

i wanna see this

[Rowan07001484]

the selky is a scottish story. I heard it years ago, about the seal woman who married a sailor, and then she had to go back when she found her skin. but it was a scottish tale no an irish one.

lovely movie though. The evacuation is a bit like the one that happened on st kilda.

[MrThingy3]

@Rowan07001484 Shelkies are in Irish folkore as well.

[JAMD456]

@Rowan07001484 The Scots were Northern Irish originally who sailed to Scotland and settled there, bringing Irish culture and customs with them, it is just a story that is common between us, and it is Irish, you would be hard pressed to find great variances between us, the Scots did not just appear one day, why do you think that Scots Gaelic is so similar to Irish?

[kardancer1]

@JAMD456 Is this true? Did some move back after the English started taking over? Is that why you get the term, Scotch-Irish Later on? Also what do the Scottish have to do with this? I am just curious, I love history.

[SeraphinaZoe]

@kardancer1

Well ... the so-called "scoti" were gaelic tribes from Ireland. They settled from 3rd to 5th century in western Scotland and formed the kingdom Dálriada.

Eastern Scotland ( kingdom Fortriu & others ) was still pictish then.

[JAMD456]

@kardancer1 The Scottish as a race were are made up of the Piccish people first (A race of celts that lived there) alongside the Northern Irish of the ancient Dál Riata that claimed part of Scotland as their own. The Irish language and culture spread with time which is where the Scottish people got their language & culture and customs.

[Clematisian]

:: Thank you, CrowLord13, for uploading this trailer for this awesome Irish tale about selkies & their offspring. I only just saw it last night as a selection in my Netflix™ queue. A must-see, absolutely. Namasté ~ (•8-D

[LauretteSusan]

What a diverse creator, John Sayles. I remember Liana. I remember this film as well. I think he had a "hand" in each film.

[TheHushlover]

this is such a great movie! I never really appreciated it as a kid, but now I'm glad my mom made us watch it so much :)

[redstrabrerreez]

lol i love the irish accent

haven't seen this movie in years. ahhh childhood memories.

[cmurphy2826]

I watched this movie ALL THE TIME when I was little. My sister and I wore out the VHS. It's so simple and beautiful and says so much with so little.

[possom412]

cimar tha thu?

[blue1spiral]

Aye, tis a wonderful story indeed!

[emilynicole95]

i want to see this movie :)

[elleomae]

i love this movie so much.

[Narnialover4]

I have this movie too,it was my Christmas present

[txcowgirl18]

I love this movie!

My grandparents are from Ireland and it beautiful captures the stories, and folklore in the culture

[thedebuities5]

@txcowgirl18 so is most of my famaly

[tamesiskendra]

GREAT GREAT movie had it when I was a child I must have been about 6 when it came out. Just found it on DVD. LOVE IT! Beautiful music.

[indieairbreathe]

thanks for posting this. i adore this movie.

[gunner47m4m4]

i have this mvie on vhs... and i dig it pretty good... maybe its time to upgrade to dvd...

[Lmotleygirl]

yeah...i think it's the kelipes who drown people, but selkies mean humans no harm, from what i've heard/read.

and god those uilleann pipes...*sigh*

[Serasia]

"T'aint a story" I was expecting someone to say at the end ;) Well you never know with selkies and the like hm? I think it's Kelpies who drown people though, and selkies just change from human to seal and vice versa. I could be wrong but anyway, I haven't seen this movie in so long..I need to watch it again. I'd understand it better if I did now. Thanks for uploading :)

[darlingzooloo]

You got it right. Typically Kelpies are the ones who transform into beautiful horses or men, and devor their victims. Selkies are usually gentle and most of the stories about them concern female-selkies, though there are male selkies too. ^_^

[gaspode18]

The folk song 'The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry' is about a male selkie.

Sule Skerry is a real place, btw, thirty miles off the north coast of Scotland between the Orknies and Cape Wrath. It's name is old Norse for Seal Island.

[crusader037972]

Great movie. Not a single curse word or gunshot. Few films can pull that off.

[irishoforiel]

I couldnt agree more with an ealier comment.The Irish and Scots,same people seperated olny sea.

[krowoo]

I love this movie. Thanks for posting this.

[MlsaXxX]

i love this film

+ i love the soundtrack, the music is so awesome!

=)

[ParamoreRoxTheSoxOff]

OMG i am watching this in class LOL

[Gawaine687]

that's really cool. what class is this? i wish more classes would show this movie.

[bandgeekperson]

I wanna see this movie.

[CinematicTwilight]

Tadhg was a hottie <3

[chocotaco48]

which one's that again? :]

[CinematicTwilight]

the one who caught the fish with his hand. He clued Fiona in on the family history.

[chocotaco48]

oh yeah. sorry, I was experiencing a severe brain fart :)

[littlegal95]

um..ah...why do they have to put the baby in that basket and put on the sea?

[rakshasa7]

He (and his siblings) were rocked to sleep by the motion of the waves; it was tethered to shore. It's only at the evacuation that someone didn't tether Jamie, and the selkies took advantage of that to steal him away.

[joyhorse13]

the grandpa looks a little like Tom Hanks xD...

[xxXingx]

CAN ANYBODY TELL ME THE SONG AT TEH BEGINNING??? I LIKE IT pls

[irishoforiel]

I have seen this movie.Well part of it,lol then I fell asleep!

[AMason8634]

sounds interesting.

[seonidh]

This mythical creatures based on the Sylkie legend from the Scottish Orkney isles. Creatures that transformed int a human from a seal. The tale spread south to the other scottish isles and then to Ireland. Just goes to show how the Gaels of scotland and Ireland are so connected we're the same people.

[hannigan06]

Couldn't agree with you more Soenidh. Ireland and Scotland are different only in name. Same culture same great histories.

I to enjoyed this tale great for Ireland.

[seonidh]

thank you mo charra, one culture and people :)

[MlsaXxX]

+ very similar language

[mamamialove]

I love sweet movies like this...

[RenataElliott]

Looks amazing! I should rent it.

[SallyImpossible]

First time I saw this movie in the theater, I cried like a baby. I went a second time and another woman was crying just as hard as I did the first time. Just a wonderful movie.

[moparmonster1965]

I just watched it. Very cool. I gather this is based on an Irish legend?

[catalunarocks]

@SallyImpossible me too. i just saw this movie and it made me cry a lot, in a good way. this was a good movie. love those selkies and those seal eyes are just too sweet. awww. great movie and story and acting.

[Danni085]

oh my god its me its me the little girl blonde girl well its not really ME but shes like identicall omg

[moparmonster1965]

The little girl looks like my own little Rowan.

[PeaceAndHappiness611]

Great movie!

[HearEyeAmmm]

i love this movie. i havent seen it in yearsssss

[Quacking101]

we whached it in drama it really kwel

[Merlinssake]

Oh I really love this film! It's so great *_* Never seen a better children's movie!