John Michael McDonagh wrote and directed The Guard which was nominated for a BAFTA, and replaced this film as the most successful independent Irish film of all time?
that Shakes the Barley"
Title: What Richard Did
Passage: What Richard Did is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell.  The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's "Bad Day in Blackrock", a fictionalised novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000.  It won the best Irish film of the year award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards and was the most commercially successful Irish film of 2012.
Title: John Michael McDonagh
Passage: John Michael McDonagh is a screenwriter and film director with British and Irish nationality.  He wrote and directed "The Guard" (2011) and "Calvary" (2014), both films starring Brendan Gleeson, receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the former.  He was born in London in 1967.  He is the older brother of playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh.
Title: The Guard (2011 film)
Passage: The Guard is a 2011 Irish buddy cop comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.  It is the most successful independent Irish film of all time in terms of Irish box-office receipts, overtaking "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (2006), which previously held this status.
John Michael McDonagh The Guard (2011 film)