An Grá Ciúin (A Quiet Love): documentary featuring Carnmoney couple to have TV premiere on TG4
A multi-award-winning documentary featuring the remarkable lives of a Carnmoney couple is to have its television premiere.
An Grá Ciúin (A Quiet Love) will be shown on TG4 on September 26 at 9:30pm.
The film captures the deeply moving love stories of three Deaf couples.
They include the decades-long romance between John and Agnes Carberry, who first met as children at Jordanstown School for Deaf children and children with visual impairments.
As a a Catholic and Protestant Deaf couple, the film tells of how their relationship grew against the backdrop of The Troubles.
Also featured in the film are a same-sex couple from Cork and Belfast navigating parenthood with Deaf and hearing children, and a Deaf boxer and his hearing partner from Dublin facing a life-altering choice.
For Deaf audiences, the film offers rare and significant representation of Deaf lives, language and relationships on screen. For hearing audiences, it provides an intimate window into experiences that are too often overlooked, while challenging assumptions about what Deafness means.
Festival journey
An Grá Ciúin (A Quiet Love) is Ireland’s first feature film in Irish Sign Language, produced by a Deaf and hearing team and directed by Garry Keane (In the Shadow of Beirut, GAZA).
The film was released theatrically and internationally under the title A Quiet Love and has enjoyed a remarkable festival journey since its world premiere at the 2025 Doc Edge Film Festival in New Zealand, where it won the Being Oneself category award.
It subsequently picked up the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the San Diego International Film Festival, and won a Global Production Award in Cannes.
An Grá Ciúin (A Quiet Love) was selected to launch Singapore’s first ever documentary festival in December and has been an official selection of more than 25 film festivals on five continents.
The film enjoyed a sold-out Irish premiere at the Cork International Film Festival in November 2025.
Most recently, An Grá Ciúin (A Quiet Love) was awarded ‘Best Feature Documentary’ at the Celtic Media Awards and earlier in 2026, it was chosen as a finalist for the Social Impact Media Awards in Los Angeles.
The production employed 28 members of the Deaf community behind the scenes in a variety of roles – an Irish filmmaking first.