Bertie Brosnan Films

03/08/2025

Clondalkin Round Tower in South Dublin City

31/07/2025

Invasion Island: Skerries' Forgotten Battle

29/07/2025

The Religious & Cultural Transformation of Ireland during the Historical Plantations

27/07/2025

Casino Marino, a miniature architectural masterpiece in Dublin City

26/07/2025

New YouTube Video

Part 2 available now 👇👇🐂

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21/07/2025

Don't miss this EPIC YouTube livestream discussion tonight at 8pm (July 21st) w/ - if you can't make it live there will be a replay available.

I would encourage you to attend if you want more livestreams & guests. I need to see the demand before investing into this!

Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir mo chairde 🇮🇪 👇👇👇

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21/07/2025

Tá áthas an domhain orm a fhógairt go bhfuil gradam buaite ag ár scannán SPIORAD CEILTEACH 🌀🎬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

Im delighted to announce that our film SPIORAD CEILTEACH (Celtic Spirit) has won an award - BEST GAELIC FILM award🙌

Congratulations to Cú Chulainn Hip-Hop especially for seeing this through. It was an honour to help out as it was abundantly clear to me that there was a beautiful power in this film.

Onwards and upwards, Irish festivals next and hopefully more of the Celtic Nations 🙏

Thanks to the West Lothian Film Festival for the award and providing the platform for our film. Blessings to you all 👏

18/07/2025

The Plantations of Ireland: A Turning Point in Irish History

Over the last few days, I’ve been revisiting one of the most significant and traumatic chapters in Irish history—the Plantations.

Beginning in the mid-1500s with the Laois-Offaly scheme under Mary I, followed by the Munster Plantation after the Desmond Rebellions, the policy escalated in scale and severity. The most impactful was the Ulster Plantation, launched in 1609 after the Flight of the Earls. This was a fully Crown-orchestrated operation that confiscated vast swathes of Irish land and settled thousands of English and Scottish Protestants in Ulster—forever altering its demographic, political, and religious landscape.

Then came Cromwell. His brutal conquest of Ireland in the 1650s led to further land confiscations, mass displacement, and the infamous policy of transplanting Irish landowners west of the Shannon. His campaign completed what the plantations had begun—breaking the old Gaelic order and entrenching a new colonial elite.

The legacy of these events is still felt today. The land, divisions, churches, and cultural shifts all have their roots in this era. It's a part of our history that deserves to be remembered and properly understood.

Here is a map to illustrate the different stages and timelines. More on my Instagram & in my video on YouTube 🙏

15/07/2025

The film set of RYAN'S DAUGHTER, which was primarily shot in West Kerry, served as an authentic working village and was available for free after the production concluded. The problem was the locals, and a dispute over the entire situation, so in the end, it was knocked down, leaving remnants of the schoolhouse.

Clipped from a ‘Newsbeat’ report broadcast on 1 October 1969. The reporter is Michael Ryan.

13/07/2025

Most Irish people have never heard of Hugh “Dubh” O’Neill — but he was one of the most skilled Irish commanders of the 17th century.

Born in Brussels in the Spanish Netherlands (what’s now Belgium), he came from a long line of exiled Irish nobility. His family had fled Ireland after the Nine Years’ War and the Flight of the Earls. He didn’t even set foot on Irish soil until he was 31 years of age — but he was a Gael all the same.

Hugh’s most legendary moment came at the Siege of Clonmel in 1650, where he and a small Irish force stood firm against Oliver Cromwell and his supposedly invincible army. O’Neill held the town with cunning tactics and ferocious defence, killing over 2,000 of Cromwell’s men — nearly a quarter of his entire force — while suffering relatively few losses himself.

When Cromwell finally entered the town, O’Neill was already gone. He'd slipped away, having bloodied the English badly. Cromwell, the butcher of Drogheda and Wexford, was never quite the same after Clonmel.

So for all you people out there that claim if you aren't born in Ireland, then you aren't Irish? What do you call Hugh "Dubh" O' neill then?

Also, if just born in Ireland, in my opinion, it doesn't automatically make you Irish, it runs deeper than that. Just my humble opinion though. Blessings to all!

11/07/2025

𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭! 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

In 1315, Edward de Bruce — younger brother of Robert the Bruce — landed in Antrim and was crowned High King of Ireland a year later. His reign lasted just 3 years, ending at the Battle of Faughart in 1318 during a time of famine and hardship.

But here’s the kicker — it wasn’t an invasion in the way we often imagine. The Irish invited Edward in, seeking alliance with the Scots after Bannockburn, against their common enemy: the English.

Why? Because we’re of the same blood. The word Scotus in medieval Latin meant “Gael” or “Irishman.” Scotland literally means “land of the Scoti.” We shared language, customs, and kinship.

As Professor Seán Duffy said in his lecture “King Robert Bruce the Irishman”: Robert the Bruce used his Gaelic heritage to forge a Celtic alliance of Irish, Scots — and even the Welsh — against English rule. His mother was a Gael from the Firth of Clyde, giving him real ties to Ireland and the Gaelic world.

From Rathlin Island in 1306–7, Bruce wrote to Irish chiefs reminding them that Scots and Irish “sprung from one seed of birth” and shared “a common language and customs.”

This alliance wasn’t fantasy — it was real. As Duffy notes, the Irish helped Bruce secure the Scottish crown, and in return, the Bruces (Edward and Robert) were welcomed into Ireland to lead a united Gaelic front to “shake off the yoke of English tyranny.”

Of course, like most High Kings, there was opposition and flat-out refusal or acknowledgement. But Edward De Bruce is buried in Ireland as 'King of Ireland' in Faughart Cemetery close to where he died in battle in 1318.

Bruce fought alongside the Irish against colonisers, the newly formed 'Anglo-Irish', the Hiberno-Irish, and the Norman Irish, essentially so, in my view, I commend his efforts to revive the Irish High Kingship, and I also view the Scots as my brothers and sisters.