There is an extended review of Count Me Out: Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn, which I recently published, in the current issue of Cineaste magazine. Written by Darragh O’Donoghue, the review opens with the following lines about my father’s work:

Bob Quinn is the greatest filmmaker you have likely never heard of. Apologies for such a tired attention grabber, but it is about time this truth was more widely recognized. Quinn is at the very least the most original filmmaker produced by Ireland. While far more garlanded directors like Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan have attempted and often failed to pursue original projects within the dominant media ecosystems of Dublin, London, and Hollywood, Quinn has maintained a personal and artistic independence in the sparsely populated, economically deprived, and Gaelic-speaking region of Connemara on the West of Ireland—the former home to generations of Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom, Europe, and, overwhelmingly, the United States, as documented in his Pobal series (1988–90).

In a country riven by actual and ideological borders, Quinn’s works are impossible to pin down. They remain sui generis, a treasury of roads not taken by an Irish industry in hock to the documentary and social-realist traditions of the UK and US, and the lure of global reach in Hollywood…

Cineaste is available here: https://www.cineaste.com/

Count Me Out is available from the Journal of Music website: https://journalofmusic.com/shop

For more on Bob Quinn’s work, visit https://cinegael.ie/