Neil Jordan is indisputably the most important filmmaker to emerge in the context of contemporary Irish cinema to date. Beginning in 1982 with Angel, he has, in the space of a little over thirty years, made seventeen feature films: a significant body of work that has engaged with a wide variety of themes and issues. In films like Angel, The Crying Game (1992) and Michael Collins (1996) he has tackled questions of political import arising from the Troubles in Northern Ireland; in Company of Wolves (1984), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Byzantium (2013), he has explored the outer...