In the 1990s, the government of Ireland struck a deal with B-movie legend Roger Corman: Corman would build a movie studio in County Galway, shooting low-budget films with Irish actors and crew, creating jobs and industry opportunities, and the government would give him financial incentives to defray the cost. The result was Concorde Anois, a studio that produced 20 films in 5 years (!) before fizzling out.
(Were they GOOD films? Oh gosh no. But Roger Corman was never in it for art's sake.)
The short but wild story of Concorde Anois was told in a 2014 documentary, "It Came From Connemara!", which is embedded here.
@jalefkowit huh, the only good thing I’ve ever heard of from Connemara is the peated Irish whiskey, which tbf is quite good indeed (and downright cheap to boot)