Joyce Fegan: How a Quiet Girl captured the heart of a nation

'An Cailín Ciúin' makes us nostalgic for the better parts of an old Irish summer.

Sometimes our consumption says a lot more about us than our utterances. Whether it's the most popular item in the nation's shopping basket (we all buy a lot of tomatoes), or what's top of the book charts, we get to see who we are through our actions, individual culminating in the collective.

Since early May, the Irish-language film An Cailín Ciúin ( The Quiet Girl) has been making lots of noise in the cinema.