Ciaran O Cofaigh, Irish

Irish people

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 Director

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 and Producer

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Biography

A native of Rath Cairn

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, County Meath

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 but now resident in An Spidéal, County Galway

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, Ó Cofaigh has worked in the Irish film and broadcast industry for twenty years. He began by enrolling on a producer/director course established by Údarás na Gaeltachta

Údarás na Gaeltachta

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 and RTÉ

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; this led to him joining Teilifís na Gaeilge, by which time he had worked freelance on productions for RTE

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 and BBC

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, both in Ireland

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 and Northern Ireland

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He set up ROSG (Old Irish rosg, meaning eye) in 1998, a film and television company based in An Spidéal. ROSG has since produced a wide variety of films, drama, documentaries and even animations. Forthcoming is a two-part documentary on the history of Irish language, An G Scéal using green screen technology and animation. The company employs between fifty and sixty people during large productions.

Ó Cofaigh produced an adaptation of the novel

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, Cré na Cille, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

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, starring Bríd Ní Neachtain

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. It was viewed at a number of Irish and global film festivals such as the Shanghai

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 International Film Festival.

External links

• http://www.galwayindependent.com/profiles/profiles/ciaran-o-cofaigh-%11-producer%10director/
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2550116/
• http://www.filmireland.net/tag/ciaran-o-cofaigh/
• http://www.rosg.ie/en/news/Oireachtas_Communication_Awards__14
• http://www.theirishworld.com/article.asp?SubSection_Id=10&Article_Id=18021