The Slate
Eight projects.
One vision.
A portfolio spanning immediate green-light candidates to a franchise-scale mythological universe - from a chipper in the Docks to the gods of ancient Ireland.
Series · Immediate
The Craic Pack
"Bridesmaids meets Derry Girls meets Sex and the City - but Irish as f*ck."
Four women meet in their first week at Trinity College Dublin and forge a bond that will define their twenties. A drunken Freshers' Week pact - to each marry in Trinity Chapel within eight years - gives their intertwined love lives a deadline, a comic engine, and a ticking clock. Raucous, heartfelt, and deeply Irish.
"The greatest love stories are often our friendships." - Fade to Black. The Boys Are Back in Town blares.
Novels First · Series · Section 481
Tír na nÓg
"We have always had the stories. We now have the books and screen adaptation."
The Fairy Child is Book One of a planned five-book saga, told across five years, rooted in Irish mythology, language and landscape. The novels come first, with the screen series being developed as a direct adaptation of the books, from the same wholly owned IP. The world readers fall into is the world audiences will meet. Around both sits a single franchise plan: publishing, screen, merchandising and licensing, all built from one original universe.
The story: seven children arrive at a Gaeltacht summer camp and discover that Irish is not a dead language. It is a living key. A spoken phrase opens a standing stone, and they cross into Tír na nÓg: a world of eternal youth, Tuatha Dé Danann factions, mythic creatures and a cold war older than history. Beyond the stone, the ancient world lives on. It has been waiting. Old powers still move beneath modern Ireland, old enmities endure, and a door, once opened, opens both ways.
Five summers, five books, five seasons. The seven grow up across the saga, ageing with their readers. Book One is being published in two parts, The Counting and The Quickening.
"We learned a language. We discovered a world."
Folk-Horror · Feature-Length Specials · Section 481
The Casebook of Dr Greaves
"An Gorta Mór is almost impossible to dramatise. So we approach it sideways - as gothic folk-horror, letting Ireland's own monsters carry a history too painful for direct depiction."
Ireland, 1845, the first year of the Great Famine. Edmond Greaves, a Trinity-trained physician and naturalist, travels to the west and meets, at his mother's estate, something his science cannot explain: An Dearg Due, a revenant risen from a wronged woman's grave. Each feature-length special is a self-contained story built on the creatures of Irish folklore and the rules that govern them: the protections that work, the transgressions that damn. As the blight spreads through the series, the horror deepens.
"Some hunger never dies."
Series · Immediate
The Docks
"Where Ireland's tech dreams go to die… with style, sarcasm, and curry chips."
Their dashboard is blinking red. Their seed funding is a pub quiz. Their crypto play is wiring airfryers to mine Bitcoin. Series A funding? Riiight...
"We didn't change the world. But we made it laugh." - Aoife "Idiots. But my idiots." - Evelyn.
Series · Prestige · Section 481
Black Feather
"Pirates of the Caribbean meets Braveheart."
Ireland, 1594. O'Neill, Red Hugh, and Grace O'Malley defy Elizabeth I across Ulster's bogs, Spain's courts, the wild Atlantic and Morocco's palaces. The story of Ireland's last great rebellion - a civilisation built on honour and spoken law, endangered by an empire of oppression. Punk-rock-trad soundtrack. A fire that never dies.
"They fought as warriors of old, carriers of the flame. The land fell silent, yet the song endures." - Bard-Narrator.
Franchise · The ICU
The Irish
Cinematic Universe
"Before King Arthur. Before The Avengers.
There were the gods of Ireland."
Three interconnected prestige series from Ireland's foundational myth cycles - the storytelling of the MCU, the dynastic scope of Game of Thrones, rooted in the cultural saga that inspired Tolkien himself.
Age of Gods · Age of Heroes · Age of Twilight
Show One
The Book of Invasions
Myth Cycle · Age of Gods · 5 Seasons
Gods and giants battle for Ireland. The Tuatha Dé Danann rise to glory, defeat the monstrous Fomorians, and retreat into the Otherworld when mortal Milesians arrive. The gods do not die - they become the sídhe, whispering in Ireland's rivers and hills.
Cosmic Spectacle · Myth-Punk Fantasy · Prophetic Tragedy
Show Two
An Táin
Ulster Cycle · Age of Heroes · 3 Seasons
Cú Chulainn - Ireland's Achilles - stands alone at the ford as Queen Medb's ambition plunges Ulster into war. He dies tied to a standing stone, defiant to the last. The Morrígan's crow lands on his shoulder. Only then do his enemies approach.
Shakespearean Tragedy · Visceral Warfare · Dynastic Betrayal
Show Three
The Last of the Fianna
Fenian Cycle · Age of Twilight · 3 Seasons
Finn MacCumhaill leads a band of warrior-poets. Oisín journeys to Tír na nÓg and returns to a Christian world. Brigid - goddess and saint - carries the old flame into the new faith. The gods do not vanish. They transform.
Lyrical Adventure · Romantic Elegy · The End of an Era
"We are not gone. We are here still, in the wind, in the water, in the story.
Honour us."
Market momentum
294 productions in Dublin alone in 2025. The industry barely breaks for Christmas. Studio space is at near-capacity during peak periods. Ireland has become the default choice for international productions seeking a stable, skilled, English-speaking base in Europe.
World-class crew
On a production of the scale of Wednesday (Netflix), all but one head of department was Irish. A decade ago it would have been half. Element Pictures - founded in Dublin in 2001 - has secured 30 Academy Award nominations and six wins. The talent pipeline is generational.
Political stability
Wednesday left Romania when a change of government withdrew the tax credit overnight. Ireland's Section 481 incentive has been consistent for decades and is actively managed by government to remain competitive. Stability is not a small thing - it is the foundation of long-term production relationships.
Global ambition
Screen Ireland operates a permanent office in Los Angeles, actively brokering relationships with studios, streamers, and global co-production partners. The Oscars, TIFF, Cannes, and Sundance are all platforms the Irish industry now occupies at the top table. The moment is now.