Professional Scriptwriting Services

Irish scriptwriting works inside one of the deepest literary traditions on the planet. Our writers' room is built on the foundation laid by four Nobel laureates — W.B. Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925), Samuel Beckett (1969), and Seamus Heaney (1995). Plus James Joyce (Ulysses, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake), Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest). Bram Stoker (Dracula).

Here is how this works in practice. Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, Anne Enright (Man Booker 2007), Colm Tóibín (Brooklyn, The Master), Roddy Doyle (The Commitments), and the today's global phenomenon of Sally Rooney (Normal People, Conversations with Friends, Beautiful World Where Are You). On the screen side, our development executives have worked with the lineage of Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, In America), Neil Jordan (The Crying Game Best First Screenplay Oscar 1992, Michael Collins Venice Golden Lion 1996), John Carney (Once. Sing Street. Begin Again).

Here is the short of it. Lenny Abrahamson (Room, Normal People HBO, Frank), Martin McDonagh (Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges, Three Billboards), John Crowley (Brooklyn, The Goldfinch), Kenneth Branagh (Belfast Best First Screenplay Oscar 2022), and Colm Bairéad (An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl).

Here is the breakdown. Our scriptwriting service treats Section 481 cultural-test compliance as a foundational design constraint, not an afterthought. Every project we develop is calibrated against the test's Irish/EEA writer, director. Key cast. Post-prod, and cultural-content criteria. This includes and against the 40% regional uplift that rewards stories outside Dublin and Cork. We embed dialect coaches for the full Hiberno-English range (Dublin North/South split, Cork city, Kerry Munster, Galway and Mayo Connacht. Donegal Ulster. Belfast and Derry Northern Ireland).

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Plus Irish-language (Gaeilge) script development for TG4 commissions, Foras na Gaeilge campaigns, and Gaeltacht-set features following the path of The Quiet Girl. We set up with Screen Ireland's development executives at Dublin HQ, the IFI Irish Film Institute, the Irish Writers Centre, and Northern Ireland Screen's slate development team. Cultural consultants vet historical periods (Easter Rising, War of Independence, Civil War, Troubles, Famine), folk heritage (Celtic mythology. Tír na nÓg. Fionn mac Cumhaill. Cú Chulainn, the Tuatha Dé Danann), GAA and classic music context, and the bilingual signage conventions across Gaeltacht regions.

Pricing scales from EUR 400-1,600 for commercials through EUR 4,000-20,000 for features.