Abstract This chapter examines Irish cinema in the first half of twentieth century, particular representations clergy, light existence Ireland’s “architecture containment” (Smith, Éire-Ireland 36:111–130, 2001) and framed with regard to Antonio Gramsci’s conception hegemony “common sense” (Selections from Prison Notebooks Gramsci. Lawrence Wishart, London, 1971). It considers Peter Lennon’s 196...