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=== Tropes that appear in this film ===
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: It isn't until approximately 80 minutes into the film that Fiona expresses any sort of angst over not having a mother.
* [[Billing Displacement]]: The selkie is in only one scene yet is on the poster. Though [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you realise that '''she''' is the secret of Roan Inish.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The light from the story which Fiona sees from her bedroom window. The first indication that {{spoiler|Jamie is living on the island}}.
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The selkie herself has no lines and barely ten minutes of screen time.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Inverted. Eamon abandoned his parents who moved to the city. Played straight with the selkie abandoning her children.
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* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: In the Coneely family every generation has one child with these features, as a mark of the selkie lineage.
* [[Real Place Background]]: Filmed entirely in Donegal.
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* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: The selkie, though she can't change shape without her seal skin.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Jamie actually (eventhough he's five years old). He doesn't actually put on clothes during the whole film.
* [[What Happened to
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