Return of the Islander DVD

'Return of the Islander' AKA 'An tOileánach a d'Fhill' Director: Jim Mulkerns (1970) Restoration by the IFI Irish Film Archive

A fictionalised account of a London labourer returning home in Inis Mór provides a vivid record of island life in the late 1960s.

Filmed entirely on the Aran Islands, Return of the Islander was the first fictional documentary shot in the Irish language, and featured an all-Aran Islander cast.