{{Infobox film | name = The Secret of Roan Inish | image = Secretinishposter.jpg | image_size = | alt = A young, dark-haired woman stands against a gold background with a door and the film's title in the foreground | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = John Sayles | producer = Sarah GreenMaggie Renzi | screenplay = John Sayles | based_on = | narrator = | starring = | music = Mason Daring | cinematography = Haskell Wexler | editing = John Sayles | studio = Jones Entertainment GroupSkerry Productions | distributor = The Samuel Goldwyn CompanyFirst Look Pictures | released = | runtime = 103 minutes | country = United StatesIreland | language = EnglishIrish | budget = $5.7 million<ref name="sayles">Gerry Molyneaux, "John Sayles, Renaissance Books, 2000 p 216</ref> | gross = $6,159,269 }}The Secret of Roan Inish is a 1994 independent fantasy-adventure film written and directed by John Sayles. It is based on the 1957 novel Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, by Rosalie K. Fry. It is centered on the Irish and Orcadian folklores of selkies—seals that can shed their skins to become human. The story, set on the west coast of Ulster in the north-west of Ireland, is about Fiona, a young girl who is sent to live with her grandparents and her cousin Eamon near the island of Roan Inish, where the selkies are rumored to reside. It is a family legend that her younger brother was swept away in his infancy and raised by a selkie. Part of the film takes place in Donegal Town. Plot Set in 1946, the story is told from the point of view of Fiona (Jeni Courtney), a young girl who is sent to live with her grandparents in an Irish fishing village, after the death of her mother, illness of her father, and her own failing health. In the evenings, her grandfather tells tales about the family's history, including the evacuation from their generational home on the tiny island of Roan Inish during the Second World War. Known in Irish as Rón Inis, meaning "Island of Seals", Roan Inish is a real location near Narin, a village on the west coast of County Donegal in the west of Ulster. They live in the Ireland of tiny fishing villages, places where everyone knows one another. People live close to nature, and animals are respected and live alongside