Seán Ó Cualáin

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{{Infobox person

| name = Seán Ó Cualáin

| nationality = Irish

| spouse = DEIRDRE UÍ CHUALÁIN. A native of Cill Chiarán. Daughter of poet and writer JACKIE MAC DONNCHA

}}

Seán Ó Cualáin is an IFTA-award-winning Irish documentary and feature film film director.{{cite news |first=Donald |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/men-at-lunch-l%C3%B3n-sa-sp%C3%A9ir-1.1043488 |last=Clarke |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=1 February 2013 |title=Men at Lunch/Lón sa Spéir |accessdate=17 June 2018}}{{cite news |title=The men who rose to fame over lunch |first=Pádraic |last=Killeen |archivedate=5 February 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205102343/http://www.irishexaminer.com:80/lifestyle/features/humaninterest/the-men-who-rose-to-fame-over-lunch-221081.html |url=http://www.irishexaminer.com:80/lifestyle/features/humaninterest/the-men-who-rose-to-fame-over-lunch-221081.html |accessdate=17 June 2018 |date=30 January 2013}} He directed Dara Beag — File Pobail in 2004, Rí an Fhocail in 2007,{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/ri-an-fhocail-v424619/corrections |accessdate=18 June 2018 |title=Rí an Fhocail |website=AllMovie.com}} Lón sa Spéir/Men at Lunch in 2012, Mise Raiftearaí an Fíodóir Focal/I am Raftery, The Weaver of Words, written by Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin in 2013,{{cite news |title=TG4 to explore the life of Raiftearaí an File |first=Kernan |last=Andrews |work=Galway Advertiser |date=30 December 2010 |accessdate=18 June 2018 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911110117/http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/34859/tg4-to-explore-the-life-of-raifteara-an-file |archivedate=11 September 2017 |url=http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/34859/tg4-to-explore-the-life-of-raifteara-an-file}} Crash and Burn (about racing driver Tommy Byrne) in 2016.{{cite web |title=Review of Irish Film @ Cork Film Festival: Crash and Burn |publisher=Film Ireland |url-status=live |archivedate=28 November 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128133409/http://filmireland.net/2016/11/27/review-of-irish-film-cork-film-festival-crash-and-burn/ |accessdate=18 June 2018 |date=27 November 2016 |url=http://filmireland.net/2016/11/27/review-of-irish-film-cork-film-festival-crash-and-burn/ |author=Steven }}{{cite web|url=http://www.tg4.ie/en/corporate/news-releases/2010/161210.html |title=Mise Raiftearaí an Fíodóir Focal (I am Raftery, The Weaver of Words) |publisher=Tg4.ie |accessdate=18 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729085200/http://www.tg4.ie/en/corporate/news-releases/2010/161210.html |archivedate=29 July 2013 }}{{cite web |title=Column: The untold story of two Irish workers… and this iconic picture |date=12 July 2012 |website=TheJournal.ie |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717011337/http://www.thejournal.ie:80/readme/lunch-atop-skyscraper-photo-men-irish-shanaglish-518110-Jul2012 |url=http://www.thejournal.ie:80/readme/lunch-atop-skyscraper-photo-men-irish-shanaglish-518110-Jul2012 |accessdate=17 June 2018 |archivedate=17 July 2012}}{{cite web |title=Famous Irish American photograph to be recreated in Galway for new film |url-status=live

|url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/famous-irish-american-photograph-to-be-recreated-in-galway-for-new-film-161546045-237750721 |archivedate=17 June 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617141955/https://www.irishcentral.com/news/famous-irish-american-photograph-to-be-recreated-in-galway-for-new-film-161546045-237750721 |first=James |last=O'Shea |website=IrishCentral.com |date=6 July 2012 |accessdate=17 June 2018}}

He is a native of Loch Con Aortha, Cill Chiaráin.{{cite web |title=Documentary on decline in Connemara to feature at major US film festival |url=https://connachttribune.ie/documentary-on-decline-in-connemara-to-feature-at-major-us-film-festival/ |date=18 March 2018 |accessdate=29 May 2019 |archivedate=19 March 2018 |url-status=live |website=ConnachtTribune.ie |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319002019/http://connachttribune.ie/documentary-on-decline-in-connemara-to-feature-at-major-us-film-festival/}}