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film · Wednesday 1 July 2026 · 8:00pm 
Maynooth Film For All - Monthly Cinema Series
At Iontas Theatre · Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
At Iontas Theatre · Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Every first Wednesday of the month, the Iontas Theatre on Maynooth University’s north campus fills with people who have come to watch something genuinely worth watching and talk about it afterwards. Maynooth Film For All is run jointly by Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service and the university’s Department of Media Studies and English, which gives the programme an academic rigour without any of the stuffiness. The selection leans toward international cinema - films that rarely get a mainstream run in Ireland - and each screening is followed by a discussion. If you like leaving a film still turning it over in your head, this is the kind of night that suits you.
The programme has been running for years and has built a loyal audience of film lovers from Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip and further afield. Recent selections have included Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed “All We Imagine As Light” and a 50th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon,” which gives you a sense of the range - contemporary award-winners alongside classic cinema that deserves a proper big-screen audience. The post-screening discussion is informal; you are not obliged to speak, but the conversations tend to be good. Tickets go on sale in the auditorium from 7:30pm, so arriving a few minutes early is easy and worth doing. The Iontas Lecture Theatre holds 350 people and is a proper cinema-style space, not a repurposed lecture hall.
Maynooth is on the M4 motorway corridor, roughly 25 kilometres west of Dublin city centre. By car, take the M4 and exit at junction 6 for Maynooth; the university campus is clearly signed from the town. By rail, the Dublin-Maynooth commuter line runs from Connolly Station and takes around 35 minutes; Maynooth station is a short walk from the campus entrance. The Bus Éireann 120 route also connects Dublin and Maynooth. Parking is available on campus in the evenings; the Iontas Building is on the north campus, so follow signs for that side of the university rather than the main south entrance.
Maynooth has a lively enough town centre for a pre-film meal or coffee - the Main Street has a good range of cafes and restaurants that cater to the university crowd. The ruins of Maynooth Castle are a two-minute walk from the centre and worth a look if you arrive early. There is more to see in Maynooth and across Co. Kildare.
Heading to Iontas Theatre in Maynooth? Kildare has plenty more to see. Read the Maynooth area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.