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Quiz: How well do you remember the decade that was in... Irish film?

Irish stars and studios were wowing audiences and winning accolades this decade.

IT REALLY HAS been a terrific decade in Irish film.

Irish actors are well represented on the big and small screen, Irish filmmakers are renowned, and Irish studios continue to punch above their weight.

But how well do you remember the films that hit our screens over the past 10 years, and the people who were in them?

Test yourself here…

What was the name of Brendan Gleeson's character in 2011 film The Guard?
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Gerry Boyle
Johnny Doyle

Eamon Fagan
Liam McBride
Who was chasing a big papier-mâché head-wearing Michael Fassbender in 2014 film Frank?
Jack Reynor
Cillian Murphy

Moe Dunford
Domhnall Gleeson
Room (2016) won four Oscar nominations, including for best director. What's the director's name?
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Martin McDonagh
Jim Sheridan

Lenny Abrahamson
John Michael McDonagh
What do Conor and Jock set off to discover that triggers a series of events in The Young Offenders?
Two AK-47s that have been used in a murder
A bale of cocaine missing from a €7 million drugs seizure

A mythical stash of cannabis in Kinsale
Conor's absent father's 1970 Ford Mustang
What's the bizarre premise of the 2015 film The Lobster?
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You must look identical to your partner or face execution within 45 days
Married couples must face a gruelling set of menial tasks together to see if they can stand each other after 45 days

Single people must find a partner in 45 days or they'll be turned into animals
Single people must eat a lobster a day for 45 days or risk becoming one themselves
How many Cartoon Saloon films were nominated for best animated feature at the Oscars in this decade?
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Who starred opposite Emmet Kirwan as Gemma in 2018 film Dublin Oldschool?
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Sarah Greene
Charlie Murphy

Ruth Negga
Seána Kerslake
Which of these was Saoirse Ronan NOT nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars for?
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Brooklyn

Ladybird
What's the name of the Irish company that co-produced 2018's The Favourite?
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Scarlet Films
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Working Title Films
Which of these didn't appear in 2014 film Calvary?
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Chris O'Dowd
Pat Shortt

Dylan Moran
Tommy Tiernan
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    Mute Ken Mc Carthy
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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:54 PM

    The Donald wasn’t far off the mark when he christened her ‘bird brain’…..she’s hopeless,inarticulate & gets totally flustered by any real/ hard questions. Her foreign policy is all over the place…..I’ve no doubt President Trump would be overjoyed to see her being put forward as a ‘contender’…….she’ll get swallowed up in jig time. It might upset Larry but there’s really only 1 Republican candidate for 2024……..TRUMP.

    LETS MAGA & STOP THE WARS

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    Dec 10th 2023, 3:40 AM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: wow kremlin bot much

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    Dec 10th 2023, 4:51 AM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: Stop the wars? He almost started complete chaos in the middle east, with his complete subservience to the Israeli regime, not to mention clipping the Iranian general.

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    Dec 10th 2023, 8:30 AM

    @margiemurph:
    Can’t wait for The Drumphster to seize power as the septic tanks fully deserve to have the last vestiges of their rotten dumb-mockracy up-ended and stamped out by Mar-a-Lardo, the Millers, Bannon and MTG et al!!
    As soon as he withdraws Murica from NATO his FSB handler Vlad the Vatnik Czar will steam roll across and recapture all the former soviet states and all the usual EU superstates will rightly be left in headlights and utter shite for their part in the Nakba-Genocide in Palestine!
    May all those complicit in the callously targetted genocide in Palestine receive any/all retribution due to them, all demagraphics, morning, noon and night, shaheed missions, A380 attacks, chemical, biological, cyber etc….anything goes anywhere, temples and hospitals especially!! A-u-A ;@)

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    Dec 10th 2023, 4:42 PM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: getting totally flustered is a bit better than flouncing off like a fanny, which is what he did with 99% of questions that weren’t a softball query he could answer with a catchphrase. Do you view him as an articulate man?

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    Dec 10th 2023, 6:05 PM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: “The “bird brains, foreign policy is all over the place” Are you suggesting that Worldwide dictatorships would be in order. Did your mammy never tell you to think before you talk and to be sure of your facts. It’s a bad reflection on DT, that he belittles everyone who served him so well, esp women. God knows what would happen if you disagreed with him.

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:28 PM

    “…his ugly persona and poisonous rhetoric…” easy Larry, bordering on hate speech there.

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    Dec 9th 2023, 9:39 PM

    @Mr. Cullen: yeah no.

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    Dec 10th 2023, 12:26 AM

    @Mr. Cullen: you do know Tiny’s a proven rap ist, right? What’s gone wrong that you would cheerlead for such a horrible human being?

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    Dec 10th 2023, 4:44 PM

    @Peter Murray: he says as if its something worth putting on the CV.

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:37 PM

    Poor aul Larry, still talking rubbish

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    Dec 10th 2023, 2:34 AM

    @Peter Murray: I’m definitely going to have a steak the size of a toilet seat

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    Dec 10th 2023, 4:53 AM

    @Harry Cock: you do realize everyone knows you are conversing with yourself!

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    Dec 10th 2023, 6:58 AM

    @Peter Murray: give the clown a stage lol

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    Dec 10th 2023, 10:18 AM

    @Peter Murray: Trump? Trump may not even be a candidate.

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    Dec 10th 2023, 12:18 AM

    Democrats will lose the next election

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    Dec 10th 2023, 8:56 AM

    @Peter Murray:
    True, that βa$tard nation of immigrants deserves to suffer Drumph until he crokes just so long as he withdraws from NATO on day one as pledged to his FSB handler in the Crimlin and has all ‘red’ states secede from the union resulting in a unCivil Race War!! ;@}

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:42 PM

    She is a pro-Israel nutter.
    “We really do need to ban TikTok once and for all and let me tell you why. For every 30 minutes that someone watches TikTok, every day, they become 17% more antisemitic”
    “We have three priorities when we look at Israel: Support Israel with whatever they need whenever they need it,” Haley said. “Eliminate Hamas, not weaken them — eliminate Hamas. And do everything we can to bring our hostages home.”

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:27 PM

    Nikki who ?

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:30 PM

    @JP: Haley – it’s mentioned a good few times in the article and it’s in the Headline too.

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:43 PM

    @JP: A typical Neocon.

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    Dec 9th 2023, 9:42 PM

    Ah the scripted lady Haley. All she ever did when attending the UN was read page after page of utter scutter. She’s all the personality of a fruit fly. Chris Christie should be the Republican nomination. At least he’s in touch with reality.

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    Dec 10th 2023, 4:10 AM

    Like him or not trump wins, the more they prosecute him his support grows.

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    Dec 10th 2023, 10:15 AM

    @Edward O’T.: Evidence to support that theory?

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    Dec 10th 2023, 2:10 PM

    @Eamonn Maloney: any recent polling data

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    Dec 10th 2023, 7:51 PM

    @mainmsam: Poll? Ok so.

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    Dec 10th 2023, 11:24 PM

    @Eamonn Maloney: yes Eamonn it’s shows the support of the candidate of any party so in that case, the OP is 100% correct in what they’re saying

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    Dec 10th 2023, 1:32 AM

    For an individual who lectures in Law, your descriptive adjectives bring you close to a Precipice. Might I suggest to you as you work in the precincts of the Galway University that you engage in a course of English Literature and learn to distinguish between, what may be deemed libel or not. It’s all in the language you know and being a Dlíadoir Glic.

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    Dec 11th 2023, 5:06 PM

    @vxQ6cYzh: It must be uncomfortable on that fence. Do you play a lot of golf?

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    Dec 9th 2023, 11:35 PM

    How many nutjobs are there in American politics?

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:17 PM

    From the frying pan and into the fire.

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:44 PM

    I got very decent odds on Haley winning, and I made that wager because there’s a significant number of potential blockers to Trump being the actual nominee after next summer. If any one of them come to pass then she’s the most electable option the GOP has.

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:52 PM

    @Daniel Sullivan:
    May well be worth a punt but unfortunately I think you will lose your money.
    I don’t think even a prison sentence would stop Trump from the nomination (the General election is another thing but he certainly could win that too)

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    Dec 10th 2023, 9:09 AM

    @Daniel Sullivan:
    Keep an eye on Glenn Youngkin too as many of Meatball Ron’s former big donors have been sounding him out and Hogan/Manchin too as alternatives post Super Tuesday!!

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    Dec 9th 2023, 8:12 PM

    Prof lar in fairness she could move ahead of the lying treacherous sex offender orange thing.

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    Dec 10th 2023, 10:16 AM

    @Peter Murray: Oh but he was!

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    Dec 9th 2023, 11:11 PM

    Eh no. Another nutcase

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    Dec 10th 2023, 10:42 AM

    Joe Biden will not be on the ticket in November 24

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    Dec 10th 2023, 12:46 PM

    The Don might as well do the lap of honour already lol

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    Dec 10th 2023, 1:06 PM

    @Harry Cock: A lap of a tennis court would probably kill him.

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    Dec 10th 2023, 8:28 AM

    Ah Pete lad sad to see your last two remaining brain cells aren’t communicating again. I would recommend you seek professional help with the keep the status qua regardless of who gets hurt attitude

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    Dec 10th 2023, 8:17 AM

    disguised dnc voter.. always talking about republican natin about the demokratz opposin sleepii joe.. pathetic

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    Dec 10th 2023, 6:27 PM

    Me thinks Larry is ignoring the relevant facts. For starters one of the Koch bros has passed on and is fuelling ‘the fires of hell’. American polls are mostly small samples and don’t account for major issues like abortion and the safeguarding of democracy or the increase in the religious right, as we have seen on recent elections. U.S. TV has rarely predicted elections accurately. Biden is doing a very good job. E.G. Trump created 2.4 million jobs. Biden created 13.4 million jobs. Look at their inflation, 4.4% Look at the amount of bipartisan bills passed. Trump won’t even get the rep nomination. Roll on Joe. Roll on Gavin Newsome!!!

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    Dec 10th 2023, 11:23 PM

    @BarryH: you are aware Bidens job numbers include people going back to work post Covid right? You are aware that there has been 40 year highs in inflation on Bidens watch, right? Also, did you see the DeSantis/Newsom debate? Newsom has his lunch eaten live on air for all to see

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    Dec 10th 2023, 11:59 PM

    @mainmsam: lol. The general concensus even among a lot of republicans i saw online was that Newsom embarrassed Ron. Even with his human feces map and all. Desantis is a joke. He will be endorsing trump soon enough denying to the hilt that he has been slating him for months.

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    Dec 11th 2023, 1:01 AM

    @mainmsam: Republicans have a concrete reputation for destroying economies. 2008 and the way Trump handled COVID are good examples. Given the effects of Ukraine and Climate change on the World economies, Biden has done an extraordinary job. The Democrats are always left to clean up, sacrificing a lot of their own policies to bail the US out.Newsom dominated De Santos, he would be the perfect president!

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    Dec 10th 2023, 9:13 PM

    The Republicans really offer Trump, a choice that guarantees more turmoil. Haley is going nowhere in 2024. The Democrats have no one with charisma. That’s the reality of it all.

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