Route Irish (film)
Route Irish is a 2010 drama- thriller film directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty.
It is set in Liverpool and focuses on the consequences suffered by private security contractors after fighting in the Iraq War.
The title comes from the Baghdad Airport Road, known as" Route Irish".
The film was a British- French co-production.
It was selected for the main competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Philip French, in" The Observer", wrote that the film reprises several themes in Loach's films, such as state- sanctioned crime, the brutality of war, the exploitation of the underclass and harsh treatment of native populations.
Fiona Bergin
Fiona Bergin is an Irish film and television producer.
Dad Rudd, M.P.
Dad Rudd, M.P. is a 1940 comedy that was the last of four films made by Ken G. Hall starring Bert Bailey as Dad Rudd.
It was the last feature film directed by Hall prior to the war and the last made by Cinesound Productions, Bert Bailey and Frank Harvey.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach( born 17 June 1936) is an English filmmaker.
His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty(" Poor Cow", 1967), homelessness(" Cathy Come Home", 1966), and labour rights(" Riff- Raff", 1991, and" The Navigators", 2001).
Loach's film" Kes"( 1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute.
Two of his films," The Wind That Shakes the Barley"( 2006) and" I, Daniel Blake"( 2016), received the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him the ninth filmmaker to win the award twice.
Loach, a social campaigner for most of his career, believes the current criteria for claiming benefits in the UK are" a," Catch- 22" situation designed to frustrate and humiliate the claimant to such an extent that they drop out of the system and stop pursuing their right to ask for support if necessary".
What Richard Did
What Richard Did is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell.
The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's "Bad Day in Blackrock", a fictionalised novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000.
It won the best Irish film of the year award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards and was the most commercially successful Irish film of 2012.
It has screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival and was selected to screen at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in April 2013.
Ciarán Fitzgerald
Ciarán Fitzgerald is an Irish film and television actor.
Ken G. Hall
Kenneth George Hall, AO, OBE( 22 February 1901 – 8 February 1994), better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film producer and director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry.
He was the first Australian to win an Academy Award.
Ruairí Robinson
Ruairí Robinson is an Irish film director and writer.
Jason Figgis
Jason Figgis is an Irish film director.

Question: Which film has the director born first, Route Irish (film) or Dad Rudd, M.P.?
Answer: Dad Rudd, M.P.