The Literary Film

Angela's Ashes, based on the autobiography of the same name by Frank McCourt, details McCourt's difficult childhood growing up poor in Limerick City in the 1930s and 1940s.

Also in this category:"Da" (1988), "The Field" (1990), "Dancing at Lughnasa" (1998), "The Dead" (1987), which Kevin Cullen says is "the best [James] Joyce on film," and "The Snapper" (1993), which Cullen calls "perhaps the best adaptation of a Roddy Doyle novel, even better that the more popular musical 'The Commitments.'"