List of films featuring the Irish Republican Army explained

This is a list of films in which the Irish Republican Army, a faction thereof or a break away organisation (whether real or fictional) is portrayed either through its plot or by a main character.

Title Director Notable cast Summary Released Notes
Juno and the PaycockAlfred HitchcockMaire O'Neill, Edward Chapman, Sidney Morgan, Sara AllgoodA long suffering wife's dismay as her troubled family is unwound by the prospect of wealth. Her husband is useless, her son is pursued by rebels for informing, and her daughter is dangerously in love with a lawyer due an inheritance. She tries to save her family from the storms that follows.[1] Based on the 1924 play by Seán O'Casey.[2] 1930
The InformerJohn FordVictor McLaglenA disgraced former IRA member decides to inform on his former comrade and use the bounty to emigrate. His former comrade is then killed in a gunfight and things spiral as it becomes known it was he who informed.[3] Based on the novel by Liam O'Flaherty.[4] 1935
Beloved EnemyH.C. PotterMerle Oberon, Brian Aherne, David NivenDuring the Irish War of Independence an Irish rebel leader and a British aristocratic woman fall in love. The rebel however is pursued by a British Army officer.[5] 1936
My Life for IrelandMax W. KimmichAnna Dammann, René DeltgenA Nazi propaganda film where a young student who sells out his love interest to the Secret Service after seeing her with a wanted Irish revolutionary, must risk his life to rehabilitate himself.[6] 1941
I See a Dark StrangerFrank LaunderDeborah Kerr, Trevor HowardA young Irish woman becomes a Nazi spy.[7] 1946
Odd Man OutCarol ReedJames MasonA wounded Irish nationalist leader in Belfast attempts to evade police following a failed robbery.[8] (The group he belongs to is not named, but the IRA were the only Irish republican group active at the time.)1947
The Quiet ManJohn FordJohn WayneA retired boxer returns home to Ireland. He falls for a fiery red-headed, whose brother forms a rivalry with him.[9] [10] 1952
The Gentle GunmanBasil DeardenJohn Mills, Dirk BogardeIRA Volunteer Terry Sullivan (Mills) become disillusioned with a bombing campaign of London during the Second World War.[11] 1952
Shake Hands with the DevilMichael AndersonJames Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis JohnsA young American gets involved in the 1921 battles between the Black and Tans and the IRA, - but at last he becomes sick of all the killing and puts an end to it by shooting an IRA-leader.[12] 1959
A Terrible Beauty(also known as The Night Fighters)Tay GarnettRobert MitchumThe Night Fighters is a look at the conflicted loyalties that trouble a daring young IRA recruit who comes to realize that some of his IRA cohorts are seriously misguided, and that the Nazis aren't to be trusted as allies.[13] Based on the 1958 A Terrible Beauty novel by Arthur Roth.[14] 1960
Ryan's DaughterDavid LeanSarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, John Mills, Leo McKern, Trevor HowardIRA men arrive in a village to prepare to receive a delivery of German rifles from a ship offshore. Although the villagers help them recover the weapons during a storm, they are captured by the local British Army detachment on leaving the beach.[15] 1970
Duck, You Sucker!Sergio LeoneJames Coburn, Rod SteigerAn Irish explosives expert on the run and a Mexican bandit unintentionally get involved in the Mexican Revolution.[16] 1971
A Sense of LossMarcel OphülsDocumentary shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence.[17] 1972
NO GO!Richard ChaseDocudrama about both the Provisional IRA and Official IRA in Derry's Bogside.[18] 1973
HennessyDon SharpRod Steiger, Lee RemickAfter his family is killed, a once peaceful Irishman plots revenge, setting out to destroy the British Parliament.[19] 1975
The Eagle Has LandedJohn SturgesMichael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert DuvallA former IRA man sheltering in Nazi Germany, where he works as a lecturer, is parachuted into England to make preparations for a Luftwaffe parachute unit, disguised as Polish soldiers, tasked with capturing or killing Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.[20] 1976
The Patriot GameArthur MacCaigA history of the Northern Irish conflict from 1968 to 1978, including the origins of the IRA and the conflict itself.[21] 1979documentary
The OutsiderTony LuraschiCraig Wasson, Sterling Hayden, Patricia Quinn, Niall O'BrienAn Irish-American man travels to Ireland during the 1970s and joins the IRA.[22] Based on the book The Heritage of Michael Flaherty by Colin Leinster. 1979
The Long Good FridayJohn MackenzieBob Hoskins, Helen MirrenA London crime boss is beset by problems which prove to be caused by the Provisional IRA, targeting his organisation following coincidental events that incorrectly implicate his involvement.[23] 1980
Guests of the NationJohn J. DesmondTwo British enlistees being held captive by the IRA during the Irish War of Independence form a sense of camaraderie with their IRA guards. Difficulties ensure when they are to be executed.[24] Based on a short story by Frank O'Connor.[25] [26] 1981Television film
Harry's GameLawrence Gordon ClarkRay Lonnen, Derek ThompsonAn IRA rifleman who assassinated a British minister in front of his family in London is tracked down by an undercover British Army officer.[27] Based on Gerald Seymour’s 1975 novel.[28] 1982Television serial
Giro City(also known by And Nothing But the Truth)Karl FrancisGlenda Jackson, Jon Finch, Kenneth Colley, Bruce Alexander, Sharon MorganDrama about a TV current affairs team who are working on two major news stories, and find themselves coming up against censorship and self-censorship in the media.[29] 1982Television film
CalPat O'ConnorHelen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, Ray McAnally, John Kavanagh, Tom Hickey, J. J. MurphyA young Provisional IRA member wants to leave after falling in love with the widow of a victim.[30] Based on a novella by Bernard MacLaverty.[31] 1984
The Glory BoysMichael FergusonAnthony Perkins, Rod Steiger, Alfred Burke, Joanna LumleyThe IRA assigns one of its members to aid a PLO assassin in his attempt to kill an Israeli nuclear scientist in London, while British Intelligence officers attempt to prevent and capture them.[32] 1984Television serial
ContactAlan ClarkeSean ChapmanA platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters. Based on A.F.N. Clarke's experiences as a Parachute Regiment officer in 1970s Northern Ireland.[33] 1984Television film
In This CornerAtom EgoyanAn amateur boxer from Canada becomes an unwitting pawn in The Troubles when he is convinced by Irish Republican Army to help smuggle accused member back into Ireland as part of his entourage.[34] 1986Television film
A Prayer for the DyingMike HodgesMickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Liam Neeson, Leonard Termo, Camille Coduri, Alison DoodyA former IRA member escapes to London and tries to forget his past.[35] 1987
Naming the NamesSylvestra Le TouzelStuart BurgeYoung Belfast woman committed to republican cause caught in web of conflicting loyalties and violence.[36] Based on a short fiction story by Anne Devlin.[37] 1987TV movie
Act of BetrayalLawrence Gordon ClarkElliott Gould, Patrick BerginAn IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.[38] 1988TV movie
The DawningRobert KnightsAnthony Hopkins, Hugh Grant, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Rebecca PidgeonDepiction of the Irish War of Independence through the eyes of the Anglo-Irish landlord class.[39] 1988
The GrasscutterIan MuneTerence Cooper, Ian McElhinneyAn Ulster Volunteer Force informer living under an assumed identity in New Zealand is revealed, with both loyalist and republican groups eager to track him down.[40] 1988
A Casualty of WarTom CleggFollowing an American air strike on Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi's personal residence, the Libyan leader agrees to supply the IRA with weapons in revenge for Britain's involvement. Aware of the plans, MI5 persuade a former SAS man to go undercover and investigate the shipment. It is a dangerous mission especially with all becoming increasingly suspicious of him, who having retired, has become a well-known writer.[41] 1989Television film
ElephantAlan ClarkeA chilling commentary on the sectarian murders which are everyday events there, covering several sectarian murders that happened during the troubles.[42] [43] 1989Television film
Who Bombed Birmingham?Mike BeckhamJohn Hurt, Martin ShawDocudrama about the Birmingham Pub Bombings and the subsequent Birmingham Six.[44] 1991Documentary film
Behind the MaskFrank MartinA documentary on the life and attitudes of IRA members. Includes interviews with Brendan Hughes, Martin Meehan, Joe Cahill, Gerry Adams, and Martin McGuinness, as well as some others.[45] 1991Documentary film
The TreatyJonathan LewisBrendan Gleeson, Bosco Hogan, Ian Bannen, Julian Fellowes, Barry McGovernDepiction of the negotiations for the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty towards the end of the Irish War of Independence, and the aftermath of the treaty leading to the Irish Civil War.[46] [47] 1991Television film
Force of DutyPat O'ConnorAdrian Dunbar, Donal McCann, Patrick MalahideAn RUC detective is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, he gradually loses control of his life.[48] 1992Television film
Patriot GamesPhillip NoyceHarrison FordA former CIA analyst witnesses and intervenes in an attempted kidnapping of the British Minister of State for Northern Ireland by a radical IRA splinter group. The group then aims to take revenge on him, while he aims to stop them.[49] Adaptation of the 1987 novel by Tom Clancy.[50] 1992
The Crying GameNeil JordanStephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Tony Slattery, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Brown, Andrée BernardThe Provisional IRA unit kidnap a black British soldier after a female member of their unit lures him to a secluded area by promising sex. The unit intends to use him to secure the release of an imprisoned Provisional IRA member. He is executed when the deadline expires. Years later a member of the unit befriends his partner in London.[51] 1992
Circles of DeceitGeoffrey SaxThe British Secret Service enlists the help of a former Special Air Service soldier to go undercover and infiltrate the IRA.[52] 1993Television film
In the Name of the FatherJim SheridanDaniel Day-Lewis Pete PostlethwaiteBased on the Guildford Four, father and son are falsely imprisoned as IRA members accused of committing the Guildford pub bombing.[53] 1993
Blown AwayStephen HopkinsJeff Bridges, Tommy Lee JonesA former IRA bomber escapes from prison and begins a campaign targeting members of the Boston police's bomb squad.[54] 1994
PatriotsFrank KerrAn Irish-American girl in Boston, whose grandfather fought the Black and Tans, is persuaded to travel to Ireland to help the IRA. Unbeknownst to her, her recruiter is a double agent for the British Army.[55] 1994
More Than a SacrificeTom CollinsA look at how four republicans adjusted to a post-ceasefire way of life after the 1994 IRA ceasefire.[56] 1995Documentary film
The Boys of Barr na SráideConor O'Carroll1996Short film
Michael CollinsNeil JordanLiam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts, Brendan GleesonBiopic about Irish revolutionary Michael Collins.[57] 1996
Some Mother's SonTerry GeorgeHelen Mirren, Fionnula FlanaganTwo mothers are faced with a dilemma when their sons in the IRA take part in the 1981 Hunger Strike.[58] 1996
The EliminatorEnda HughesSet in the middle of the Troubles, it tells the story of a gang of youths in Armagh known as 'The Organisation' fighting the British secret service for control of a super-vehicle named The Viper, whose plans are in the hands of a republican rebel.[59] 1996
The Devil's OwnAlan J. PakulaBrad Pitt, Harrison FordAn NYPD officer discovers that an Irish immigrant they housed is an undercover member of the IRA attempting to purchase missiles.[60] 1997
Midnight Man Lawrence Gordon ClarkBritish soldiers force a recently captured IRA member to cooperate with them and to go undercover to prevent an attempt on the life of the U.S. president. But the spy soon realizes that the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme risking trouble between China and the United Kingdom.[61] 1997Television film
A Further Gesture(Also known as The Break)Robert DornhelmStephen Rea, Alfred Molina, Rosana Pastor, Brendan Gleeson, Jorge SanzFollowing his escape from prison, an IRA member escapes to America. Jaded, he is determined not to take up any fresh causes in America. He then falls in with some Guatemalan exiles who aim to assassinate a member of the CIA. He reluctantly helps the amateur trio so that he and one of the Guatemalans he has fallen for can escape together. This “further gesture” is to have unexpected repercussions for all four.[62] 1997
The InformantJim McBrideA man who escaped the troubles is reluctantly pulled out of retirement in the Republic of Ireland by the IRAwho bring him back to Belfast to perform one last job due to his skill with an RPG. Initially refusing the job, he realises he has no choice. He is to kill a judge using an RPG. During the getaway he is arrested and becomes a supergrass.[63] 1997
The JackalMichael Caton-JonesBruce Willis, Richard GereAn ex-IRA gunman is recruited to assist the CIA in tracking down a suspected presidential assassin.[64] 1997
The BoxerJim SheridanDaniel Day-Lewis, Emily WatsonA boxer, and former Provisional IRA returns home from a 14-year stint in prison at the age of 32. Weary of the unbroken cycle of violence in Northern Ireland, he attempts to settle down and live in peace. He starts up a non-sectarian boxing club for boys in an old gymnasium.[65] 1997
The GeneralJohn BoormanBrendan GleesonDetails the life of Dublin underworld figure Martin Cahill.[66] 1998
Titanic TownRoger MichellA mother and her family move during the height of the troubles into a housing estate in Catholic West Belfast. Violent conflict exists side-by-side with normal civilian life. But when an old friend is killed in the crossfire, it leads the mother to a meeting of a women's peace group.[67] Based on the 1993 autobiography by Mary Costello.[68] 1998
Divorcing JackDavid CaffreyDavid Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths, Jason Isaacs, Richard Gant, Robert LindsayA Northern Irish reporter gets entangled in a web of political intrigue and sectarian violence, at the same time as Northern Ireland is set to elect a new Prime Minister.[69] Adaptation of the 1995 book by Colin Bateman.[70] 1998
RoninJohn FrankenheimerRobert De NiroIRA operatives hire mercenaries to retrieve a mysterious briefcase.[71] 1998
The CraicTed EmeryTwo best friends flee from Belfast and illegally enter Australia after a violent confrontation with the IRA.[72] 1999
ExiledBill MuirAn Irishman emigrates to New York to escape the tensions of Northern Ireland in 1991. However, this does not free him from strife, soon finding himself in the middle of a gun-running operation involving his cousin and two hot-headed friends.[73] 1999
BritsPeter TaylorDepiction of the covert war in Northern Ireland including interviews of former members of 14 Intelligence Company, the RUC Headquarters Mobile Support Unit and MI6.[74] 2000Documentary television series
Borstal BoyPeter SheridanA young Behan, is jailed during an IRA bombing mission in Liverpool. He loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners.[75] Based on the 1958 autobiography by Brendan Behan.[76] 2000
An Everlasting PieceBarry LevinsonBarry McEvoy, Brían F. O'Byrne, Anna Friel, Pauline McLynn, Laurence Kinlan, Billy Connolly, Enda OatesTwo wig salesmen, one Catholic and one Protestant, live in war-torn Belfast, Northern Ireland in the mid-1980s and embark on their plan to get rich through selling hair pieces. Their business ends up involved with the troubles.[77] 2000
The BombmakerGraham TheakstonDervla Kirwan, Mark Womack, David Hunt, Francis Magee, Samantha Bond, Angeline Ball, Keith Duffy, Scott MaslenA former IRA bombmaker is forced to come out of retirement when her daughter is kidnapped and held to ransom.[78] Based on the novel by Stephen Leather.[79] 2001Television film
Shamrock and SwastikaBrendan Culleton, Irina MaldeaExamination of the Irish Republican Army's collaboration with the Abwehr during World War II.[80] 2001Television documentary
H3Les BlairDean Lennox Kelly, Mark O'Halloran, Depiction of the 1981 Irish hunger strike.[81] 2001
Bloody SundayPaul GreengrassJames Nesbit, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorleyDepiction of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre.[82] 2002Television film
SundayCharles McDougallCiarán McMenamin, Christopher EcclestonDepiction of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre.[83] 2002Television film
The Rising of the MoonDeborah BaxtromIRA member Bobby Sands is visited by his mother while imprisoned in Northern Ireland.2002
BoxedMarion ComerTom MurphyA priest is called upon to provide last rites to an IRA prisoner.[84] 2002Drama
The MazeA history of the notorious HMP Maze and its role in the troubles.[85] 2002Television documentary
OmaghPete TravisDepiction of the 1998 Omagh Bombing by the Real IRA.[86] 2004Television film
Breakfast on PlutoNeil JordanCillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Stephen ReaA transgender woman foundling searching for love and her long-lost mother in small town Ireland and London in the 1970s.[87] 2005
The Year London Blew UpEdmund CoulthardDramadoc about the 1974-75 Provisional IRA campaign in London, which culminated in the Balcombe Street siege.[88] 2005Television film
Johnny WasMark HammondPatrick Bergin, Samantha Mumba, Lennox Lewis, Roger Daltrey, Eriq La SalleA Provisional IRA volunteer from Ireland escapes his violent past to lie low in London. This changes when his former mentor breaks out of Brixton Prison with members of a dissident republican group hellbent on derailing the Irish peace process.[89] 2006
The Wind That Shakes the BarleyKen LoachCillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Pádraic Delaney, Orla FitzgeraldTwo brothers join the IRA in the Irish War of Independence after seeing a friend killed by the Black and Tans. However tensions rise when they are on opposing sides in the Irish Civil War that follows.[90] [91] 2006
I.R.A. King of NothingDamian ChapaA disgruntled IRA member becomes Ireland's biggest threat to the peace process.[92] 2006
Fifty Dead Men WalkingKari SkoglandBen Kingsley, Rose McGowan, Jim SturgessA loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name.[93] [94] 2008
HungerSteve McQueenMichael Fassbender, Liam CunninghamDepiction of the Bobby Sands during the 1981 Irish hunger strike.[95] 2008
Five Minutes of HeavenOliver HirschbiegelLiam Neeson, James NesbittDepiction of a historical killing in 1975 during the troubles, and a reconciliation attempt after 33 years.[96] 2009
Voices From The GraveKate O'CallaghanThe story of the Northern Ireland Troubles through the Provisional IRA's Brendan Hughes and the UVF's David Ervine, two men who played key roles on opposite sides of the ongoing conflict.[97] Based on the book Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland by Ed Maloney.[98] 2010Documentary
Shadow DancerJames MarshAndrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Domhnall GleesonFollowing a failed bombing an IRA member is turned into an informer for MI5 to avoid imprisonment and protect her son.[99] Based on the 1998 novel by Tom Bradby.[100] 2012
'71Yann DemangeJack O'ConnellA young British soldier is accidentally abandoned, following a riot in Belfast, in 1971.[101] 2014
The Journey Nick HammTimothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie HighmoreA fictional account of the true story of how political enemies Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness formed an unlikely political alliance.[102] 2016
RebellionColin TeevanCharlie Murphy, Ruth Bradley, Sarah Greene, Brian Gleeson, Niamh Cusack, Michelle Fairley, Ian McElhinney, Barry Ward, Laurence O'Fuarain, Perdita WeeksA five part serial drama about the birth of modern Ireland. The story is told from the perspectives of a group of fictional characters who live through the political events of the 1916 Easter Rising.[103] 2016
The ForeignerMartin CampbellJackie Chan, Pierce BrosnanA man seeks revenge for the death of his daughter, killed by a bombing committed by a rogue faction of the IRA.[104] 2017
MazeStephen BurkeTom Vaughan-LawlorPrison film about the IRA Maze prison escape of 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners.[105] 2017
ResistanceColin TeevanBrian Gleeson, Simone Kirby, Natasha O'Keeffe, Gavin DreaSet in late 1920, Resistance is a sequel series to the 2016 miniseries Rebellion.[106] 2019
Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret HistoryPeter JohnstonA special from Spotlight delving into the role of British Intelligence's "dirty war" and collusion during the troubles.[107] 2019documentary
BaltimoreChristine Molloy Joe LawlorImogen PootsBiopic of heiress-turned-IRA member Rose Dugdale.[108] 2023
Dead ShotTom Guard &Charles GuardAml Ameen, Colin Morgan, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Sophia Brown, Máiréad Tyers, Mark Strong and Felicity Jones.A retired Irish paramilitary witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife by a British soldier and escapes, wounded and presumed dead, to 1970s London to plot his revenge.2023
The Secret ArmyDarragh MacIntyre & Chris ThorntonDocumentary by Darragh MacIntyre & Chris Thornton investigating the lost 1972 film 'The Secret Army by John Bowyer Bell and Zwy Aldouby. It showed segments from the lost film, including some unseen footage of Provisional IRA operations and training. It also included interviews with Des Long, Tony Devine, Jacob Stern, and Tim Pat Coogan.[109] [110] 2024Television documentary

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  1. Web site: Hagopian . Kevin Jack . Film Notes -Juno and the Paycock . 2024-03-22 . albany.edu . New York State Writers Institute . JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK is the story of the long suffering "Juno Boyle’s" (Sara Allgood) sudden good fortune at her family’s impending inheritance, and her dismay as her troubled family is slowly unwound by the prospect of great wealth. Juno’s boastful, spendthrift husband, "Paycock" (Edward Chapman) and his drinking buddy "Joxer Daly" (Sidney Morgan) bedevil her with their noisome, selfish ways. Her son "Johnny," having informed on a fellow IRA man, is pursued by a merciless rebel court, and her daughter "Mary," is dangerously in love with the lawyer who brings the news about the windfall. Through the storms the money brings, the battered, grieving Juno must remain the family’s rudder..
  2. Web site: PlayographyIreland - Juno and the Paycock . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224715/http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=2077 . 2013-12-02 . 2024-03-22 . .irishplayography.com.
  3. Web site: AFICatalog - The Informer . 2024-03-22 . American Film Institute . In 1922, in the strife-torn streets of Dublin, Gypo Nolan, a poor, lumbering goliath, sees a "wanted for murder" poster of his best friend, rebel Frankie McPhillip, that promises a twenty-pound reward for information leading to Frankie's arrest. Although broke and hungry, Gypo suppresses his interest in the poster, until his girl friend, prostitute Katie Madden, berates him in frustration for their poverty. Spurred on by Katie's longing for passage to America, Gypo enters the headquarters of the British army and reveals that Frankie, whom he has just seen, is at Frankie's mother's house. After Frankie is killed in front of his mother and sister Mary, Gypo collects his reward money and finds his way to a pub. There, he explains to Katie that he acquired his newfound wealth by robbing a drunken American sailor. Gypo then shows up at Frankie's wake, where his edgy, defensive behavior and collection of coins arouse suspicion in some members of the Irish rebel army, which had ousted him earlier for failing to carry out an execution. To test their suspicions, the rebels take Gypo to see Dan Gallagher, the commandant of the underground army, who tells Gypo that if he reveals the name of the informant, he will be reinstated in the group. Eager to prove himself, Gypo blurts out the name of tailor Pat Mulligan and then invents a revenge motive for him. Dan, who is anxious to rout out the traitor, agrees to investigate Gypo's accusations at a meeting to be held later that night. Before the meeting, a now drunken Gypo is befriended by Terry, an opportunistic conman, who encourages him to spend his £20 buying food and drink for strangers. Dan, meanwhile, questions Mary about Frankie's fatal visit, and she reveals that Frankie had mentioned seeing Gypo just before coming home. Armed with this information, the rebels find a reeling, nearly broke Gypo in an "after hours" club and escort him to the meeting. After questioning a befuddled Mulligan, the rebels turn on Gypo, who finally admits his deed. Unmoved by Gypo's protests that he didn't know what he was doing, the rebels lock him up and draw straws for his execution. Desperate, Gypo breaks out of his cell and runs to Katie, who hears his tearful confession of betrayal. Filled with her own guilt, Katie goes to Dan and begs for Gypo's life, but discloses his whereabouts in the process. While sleeping in front of Katie's fireplace, Gypo is besieged by the vengeful rebels and shot. The wounded Gypo staggers to a nearby church and makes a dying confession to Frankie's grieving mother. As Gypo collapses for the last time at the foot of the altar, Frankie's mother forgives him..
  4. Book: O'Flaherty, Liam . The Informer . Jonathan Cape . 1925 . London.
  5. Web site: Lux Radio Theater 1937 - Beloved Enemy . 2024-03-22 . archive.org.
  6. Web site: Mein Leben für Irland Film 1941 Moviepilot . 2024-03-22 . moviepilot.de . de . Dublin 1921: Michael O'Brien, der Sohn eines aufständischen Iren, wird wie viele irische Altersgenossen auf ein Internat geschickt, wo er gemeinsam mit englischen Schülern lernen und so zu einem Engländer erzogen werden soll. Zu der Gruppe um den achtzehnjährigen Michael stößt eines Tages der neue Schüler Patrick, ein in Amerika aufgewachsener Ire. Sie freunden sich an. Bei einem Besuch bei Michaels Mutter entflammt Patrick in schwärmerischer Liebe zu ihr. Nachts schleicht er aus dem Schlafsaal, um zu ihr zu gelangen - und sieht sie mit einem anderen Mann. Gekränkt vertraut er sich einem englischen Mitschüler an. Der erkennt aus Patricks Schilderung in dem Mann den gesuchten irischen Freiheitskämpfer und Revolutionsführer Robert Devoy. Er macht den Geheimdienst darauf aufmerksam - sein Onkel ist Offizier des Secret Service. Sie wird verhaftet, Devoy konnte rechtzeitig fliehen. Michael aber, Anführer eines Geheimbundes der irischen Schüler, die den anstehenden Aufstand gegen die Engländer unterstützen wollen, gerät darüber in großen Streit mit Patrick, der mit seiner Schwärmerei und seinem Geständnis gegenüber dem Mitschüler den Geheimdienst erst auf die Fährte der Mutter gebracht hatte. Um seine Schuld zu sühnen, nimmt Patrick Kontakt zu Devoy auf, der ihm einen ausgefeilten Plan vorlegt, wie man den Engländern einen schweren Schlag versetzen könnte. Patrick soll als Doppelagent fungieren, scheinbar für die Engländer als Spitzel arbeiten, tatsächlich aber für die Sache der Revolution kämpfen. Doch Michael und die anderen irischen Mitschüler sehen in ihm einen Verräter, und als der Aufstand aufbricht, muss Patrick sein Leben riskieren, um sich zu rehabilitieren. . Dublin 1921: Michael O'Brien, the son of a rebellious Irishman, is, like many Irish contemporaries, sent to a boarding school where he is supposed to study alongside English students and thus be raised to be an Englishman. One day, the group around eighteen-year-old Michael is joined by new student Patrick, an Irishman who grew up in America. They become friends. During a visit to Michael's mother, Patrick falls in love with her. At night he sneaks out of the dormitory to get to her - and sees her with another man. Offended, he confides in an English classmate. From Patrick's description he recognizes the man as the wanted Irish freedom fighter and revolutionary leader Robert Devoy. He brings this to the attention of the Secret Service - his uncle is a Secret Service officer. She is arrested, Devoy was able to escape in time. But Michael, leader of a secret society of Irish students who want to support the upcoming uprising against the English, gets into a big argument with Patrick, who was the first to put the secret service on the mother's trail with his crush and his confession to his fellow student. To atone for his guilt, Patrick contacts Devoy, who presents him with an elaborate plan to deal a serious blow to the English. Patrick is supposed to act as a double agent, apparently working as an informant for the English, but actually fighting for the cause of the revolution. But Michael and the other Irish classmates see him as a traitor, and when the uprising breaks out, Patrick has to risk his life to rehabilitate himself..
  7. Web site: 2016-08-18 . I See A Dark Stranger (1946) - Overview - TCM.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160818004723/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/66832/I-See-A-Dark-Stranger/ . 2016-08-18 . 2024-03-22 . Turner Classic Movies . Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who has fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts..
  8. News: Crowther . Bosley . 1947-04-24 . Odd Man Out (1947) ' Odd Man Out,' British Film in Which James Mason Again Is the Chief Menace, Has Its Premiere at Loew's Criterion . deviated . https://web.archive.org/web/20150616010943/https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE0D6173CE13BBC4C51DFB266838C659EDE . 2015-06-16 . 2024-03-22 . The New York Times.
  9. Web site: AFICatalog - The Quiet Man . 2024-03-22 . catalog.afi.com.
  10. Web site: 2001-12-08 . The quiet man and the big fellow . 2024-03-22 . The Irish Times . en . The Quiet Man is set in the immediate aftermath of the Treaty and, in one exchange, a character (an ex-IRA commander) reminds Michaeleen Oge (Barry Fitzgerald) "that we're at peace now". "True," answers Michaeleen Oge, "but I haven't given up hope.".
  11. Web site: BFI Screenonline: Gentle Gunman, The (1952) . 2024-03-21 . www.screenonline.org.uk . The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence..
  12. Web site: Collections Search BFI British Film Institute . 2024-03-22 . British Film Institute . Period drama. A young American gets involved in the 1921 battles between the Black and Tans and the IRA, - but at last he becomes sick of all the killing and puts an end to it by shooting an IRA-leader. (Synopsis).
  13. Web site: 2018-07-29 . The Night Fighters . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180729230445/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/161075%7C0/The-Night-Fighters.html . 2018-07-29 . 2024-03-22 . Turner Classic Movies . The Night Fighters is a look at the conflicted loyalties that trouble the daring young IRA recruit Dermot O'Neill (Robert Mitchum) who comes to realize that some of his IRA cohorts are seriously misguided, and that the Nazis aren't to be trusted as allies..
  14. Book: Roth, Arthur J. . A Terrible Beauty . Hutchinson . 1958 . 9781472122148 . London.
  15. Web site: Ryan's Daughter (1970) BFI . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160407092110/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b4cbeea . 2016-04-07 . 2024-03-22 . British Film Institute . In 1916 in Kirrary, a poor Irish village, Rosy Ryan, daughter of the local publican, is a high-spirited but dreamy girl who mistakes the diffident, widowed village schoolmaster for a man of distinction and, on marrying him, finds disillusionment. The fulfilment of her dreams then arrives, or so she believes, in the form of war-shattered British officer Major Doryan. Meanwhile, a German shipment of guns is being awaited by Irish nationalists, led by the ruthless Red Tim, with which guns they plan to fight the British. Rosy's attachment to the major, known throughout the village, puts her in danger when someone betrays Red Tim.
  16. Web site: Duck, You Sucker! . 2024-03-22 . Film at Lincoln Center . en . The struggles of the ’70s are transposed to the front lines of the Mexican Revolution in Sergio Leone’s last Zapato western. James Coburn is an IRA dynamite expert on the lam who teams up with a Mexican bandit (Rod Steiger); together they become accidental revolutionaries when they case a bank that’s been transformed into a political prison by the Mexican government..
  17. Web site: OUR BATTLE OF IMAGES: A SENSE OF LOSS . 2024-03-22 . Irish Film Institute . en . However, whereas the talking-head format is typically used as a way of filling out a linear narrative line, German-born documentarian Marcel Ophuls’s exhaustive approach seems genuinely investigative. Ophuls would begin with a bombing or shooting, question everyone involved, and gradually draw out the historical and ideological causes. Over 40 interviews feature, with everyone from victims’ families and internees, to Bernadette Devlin and Ian Paisley. Each speaks at length, but is also challenged thoroughly, with Ophuls often presenting someone with opposing views from another interview and intercutting the results..
  18. Web site: 2023-01-09 . No Go! (1973) - The AV Club . 2024-03-22 . The A.V. Club . en . Docudrama about IRA in Derry's Bogside/Creegan areas - begins with British setting up of Northern Ireland in the 1920s "which made niggers out of the Catholic minority" there; mentions the split of the IRA into the Provisional ("Provo") faction, which called for conventional uprising to gain independence, and the Official faction, which was strongly Marxist..
  19. Web site: 2009-01-13 . BFI Film & TV Database HENNESSY (1975) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090113215539/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/36138 . 2009-01-13 . 2024-03-22 . British Film Institute . During a street riot in Belfast, the wife and daughter of Hennessy are accidentally killed by a British soldier. Normally opposed to violence, Hennessy decides to destroy the British Parliament during the State Opening the following week..
  20. News: Canby . Vincent . 1977-03-26 . 'Eagle Has Landed' on Screens With Lively Splash of Adventure . 2024-03-22 . The New York Times.
  21. News: Maslin . Janet . 1981-06-20 . 'THE PATRIOT GAME' . 2024-03-22 . The New York Times . Much of Mr. MacCaig's footage looks like newsreel material. It isn't. Closely studying the events in Northern Ireland during the last 10 years, Mr. MacCaig clandestinely filmed some remarkable street scenes. A man is seen struggling wildly to resist arrest; a group of women assault a British soldier; some children use a demolished truck as a plaything. There is even footage of the bombing of a car and the terrified reactions of people nearby. Mr. MacCaig's own footage is hard to distinguish from the newsreels he also uses, which is one measure of its power and veracity. The calm and intelligent narration also helps unify the film's various ingredients. There is a history lesson here, as the narrator traces the politics of Northern Ireland back for centuries. As the progression of events is coolly and patiently discussed, the film touches on momentous milestones and subtler ones as well. The birth of the I.R.A. is explained. And so is the point at which no-warning bombings of public places replaced the more humane kind. More humane bombings? Can there be such a thing? Mr. MacCaig's film, by dissecting the situation so coolly, helps emphasize the anguish, the bitterness and the confusion..
  22. News: Borders . William . 1979-12-09 . A Harrowing Film About Ireland Today:A Harrowing Film on Ireland . 2024-03-22 . The New York Times.
  23. News: Bradshaw . Peter . 2015-06-18 . The Long Good Friday review – classic Brit gangster melodrama . 2024-03-22 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  24. News: O'Connor . John J. . 1981-02-09 . TV: 'GUESTS OF NATION' AND MISTER LINCOLN . 2024-03-22 . The New York Times . The setting is Ireland in 1921. The title, needless to say, is ironic. The immediate guests are two British soldiers being held hostage by Irish insurgents. In the broader context, the guests are the Irish themselves, still seeking to gain control of their own house from the British. Mr. O'Connor's deceptively simple story manages to skewer brilliantly the absurdities and horrors of war. The Irish jailers and the British captives are all decent chaps trapped in a scenario that is beyond their control. Initial suspicions quickly give way to tentative sharings and petty but thoroughly normal squabblings over religion and politics..
  25. Book: O'Connor, Frank . Guests of the Nation . Macmillan . 1931.
  26. Web site: Guests Of The Nation . 2024-03-22 . RTÉ Archives . en . Set during the War of Independence, the story centres on two Irishmen, Bonaparte and Noble, whose job it is to guard two English soldiers, Belcher and Hawkins, who are being held hostage in an isolated Cork farmhouse where an old woman lives. During this period the four get to know each other, and relationships slowly form between the guests and the revolutionaries. When news arrives that four Irishmen have been captured and executed by the British forces stationed locally, Bonaparte and Nobel receive orders to shoot the two hostages. Bonaparte as the narrator recounts this traumatic series of events which changes him fundamentally as a person..
  27. Web site: Harry's Game - Lawrence Gordon Clark . 2024-03-21 . www.lawrencegordonclark.com . Harry's Game is a 1982 Yorkshire Television 3-part mini series about Harry Brown, a British agent sent to infiltrate the IRA in Belfast to find and kill the assassin of a cabinet minister..
  28. Book: Seymour, Gerald . Harry's Game . Random House . 1975 . 9780394499024 . New York.
  29. Web site: BFI Film & TV Database GIRO CITY (1982) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090129093518/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/219992 . 2009-01-29 . 2024-03-22 . British Film Institute.
  30. Web site: Hagopian . Kevin Jack . Film Notes - CAL . 2024-03-22 . albany.edu . New York State Writers Institute.
  31. Book: MacLaverty, Bernard . Cal . Blackstaff Press . 1983 . Belfast.
  32. Web site: The Glory Boys (1984) . 2024-03-22 . The A.V. Club . en . Two ideologically-disparate terrorists (one from the PLO, one from the IRA) meet up in London to assassinate a visiting Israeli nuclear scientist. An alcoholic ex-government agent is brought out of retirement to track them down..
  33. Web site: Contact Troubles Archive . 2024-03-23 . www.troublesarchive.com.
  34. News: Crook . Barbara . 1986-01-31 . Subtle drama counts cost of terrorism . Ottawa Citizen.
  35. Web site: Hinson . Hal . 1987-09-11 . 'A Prayer for the Dying' . 2024-03-22 . The Washington Post.
  36. Web site: CAIN: Lance Pettitt (2000) 'Television drama and the Troubles', from Screening Ireland: Film and television representation . 2024-03-21 . cain.ulster.ac.uk . Her Naming the Names (1987) tells of how Finn's (Sylvestra Le Touzel) life is shaped by her experience of the Protestant pogrom of 1969, in which her granny died, and the subsequent arrival of the British troops. The narrative is structured through flashbacks or dream sequences during her interrogation by an RUC officer (Ian McElhinney). She has been arrested for her part in luring Henry Kirk (Michael Malone) to a park where he has been shot by the IRA. Henry, the son of a judge and from a unionist background, was studying Irish history at Oxford, and became sexually involved with Finn after visiting the book shop in which she worked..
  37. Book: Devlin, Anne . The Way-Paver . Faber and Faber Limited . 978-0571145973 . 1986-11-17.
  38. Web site: Act of Betrayal (1988) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia . 2024-03-21 . www.screenaustralia.gov.au . en.
  39. Web site: 2012-09-10 . The Dawning 1988,, directed by Robert Knights Film review . 2024-03-21 . Time Out Worldwide . en-GB . This modest period drama, set in the south of Ireland before partition in 1921, successfully avoids most of the pratfalls and preciousness inherent in the genre. Based on Jennifer Johnston's elegant and expressive novel The Old Jest, it mirrors the events of the mounting IRA terrorist campaign in the maturing mind and soul of an 18-year-old girl. The setting is the world of fading grandeur of the old Anglo-Irish ascendancy. Independent-minded Nancy (Pidgeon) lives in a great house presided over by her aunt (Simmons) and wheelchair-ridden ex-General grandfather (Howard, visibly his last role)..
  40. Web site: THE GRASSCUTTER . 2024-03-21 . www.ngataonga.org.nz . en-NZ . The film tells the story of Brian Deeds - living a new life in New Zealand after turning ‘supergrass’ in his native Ireland some years before. His life is turned into turmoil when his estranged wife tells him that his cover has been blown and their young son murdered”. - (from Grasscutter press and publicity).
  41. Web site: A Casualty of War (1989) starring David Threlfall, Shelley Hack, Amanda Burton, Richard Hope, Clarke Peters, Nadim Sawalha, Alan Howard directed by Tom Clegg Movie Review . 2024-03-23 . www.themoviescene.co.uk.
  42. Web site: 2005-05-13 . BBC - Northern Ireland - Drama - Productions - Past Productions - Singles 1985 - 1989 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050513214024/http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/drama/productions/past/singles1985.shtml . 2005-05-13 . 2024-03-23 . . It is said that for those living in Northern Ireland the ‘Troubles’ are as easy to ignore as an elephant in your living room. Alan Clarke’s drama is a chilling commentary on the sectarian murders which are everyday events there..
  43. Web site: BFI Screenonline: Elephant (1989) . 2024-03-23 . www.screenonline.org.uk.
  44. Book: Ness, Richard R. . Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film . Rowman & Littlefield . 2020 . 9781538103609 . 219–220.
  45. News: 1992-05-08 . Theme Is Human Rights . "BEHIND THE MASK" (1989), directed by Frank Martin and the Activision Irish Project. A documentary on the life and attitudes of Irish Republican Army members, with a discussion with the directors on Sunday..
  46. Web site: The Treaty - Where to Watch and Stream Online . 2024-03-23 . Entertainment.ie . en . How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921..
  47. Web site: Brendan Gleeson Is Michael Collins . 2024-03-23 . RTÉ Archives . en.
  48. Web site: The Irish Film & Television Network . 2024-03-23 . www.iftn.ie . RUC detective Simpson GABBY is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually loses control of his life..
  49. Web site: McBride . Joseph . 1992-06-03 . Patriot Games . 2024-03-23 . Variety . en-US.
  50. Book: Clancy, Tom . Patriot Games . Penguin Publishing Group . 1987 . 9780399132414.
  51. Web site: Dwyer . Michael . 2018-08-09 . Tears for fears: The Crying Game review (1992) . 2024-03-23 . The Irish Times . en.
  52. Web site: BFI Film & TV Database CIRCLE OF DECEIT (1993) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090129080045/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/496018 . 2009-01-29 . 2024-03-23 . British Film Institute . TV Film. An ex-SAS operative is called back by his superiors to infiltrate the IRA..
  53. Web site: In the Name of the Father . 2024-03-21 . Box Office Mojo . An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them..
  54. Web site: Blown Away (1994) . 2024-03-23 . The A.V. Club . en . An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad..
  55. Book: Moynihan, Sinéad . Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The ‘Returned Yank’ in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present . Liverpool University Press . 2019 . 9781786949707 . 43–84 . ‘Quiet Men’: Film and Filmmaking in Returned Yank Fictions of the Troubles.
  56. Book: Flynn, Roddy . Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema . Tracy . Tony . Rowman & Littlefield . 2019 . 9781538119587 . More Than a Sacrifice (1995) looked at how four Republicans adjusted to a post-ceasefire way of life....
  57. News: Muir . Kate . 2024-03-22 . Classic film: Michael Collins (1996) . 2024-03-22 . en . 0140-0460 . Despite some mild deviations from historical fact and a reliance on cheap period scenery, this movie has heart, beating at speed as Collins, the guerrilla leader of the Irish Republicans fighting for independence, remains constantly on the run from the police and English soldiers..
  58. Web site: Festival de Cannes - From 15 to 26 may 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121006104216/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4723/year/1996.html . 2012-10-06 . 2024-03-22 . Cannes Festival . Would you agree to let your son die if he went on a hunger strike for his beliefs? Would you go against his beliefs and save his life even though it meant the defeat of the cause he was willing to die for. Such is the dilemma facing Kathleen Quigley and Annie Higgins, two Irish mothers during the 1981 hunger strike protest, in Northern Ireland, led by Bobby Sands. The two reluctant companions hold the fate of their grown son - and the fate of the cause their son are willing to die for - in their hands. They journey through war-torn streets of Northern Ireland to the corridors of power in London, as they battle to save the lives of Sands and his fellow hunger strikers. And as the clock ticks away on their children's lives, they prepare to face the parent's nightmare, whether to let their sons live or die..
  59. News: 2023-12-23 . Irish Cult Movie Classics: The Eliminator . 2024-03-23 . RTÉ.
  60. Web site: Travis . Emlyn . 2023-06-02 . Harrison Ford accepts blame for Brad Pitt tension on 'Devil's Own' set . 2024-03-21 . EW.com . en . In the film, Ford stars as NYPD Sergeant Tom O'Meara, whose family takes in an Irish construction worker named Rory Devaney (Pitt) only to discover that Devaney is an undercover IRA terrorist attempting to purchase a cargo of missiles..
  61. Web site: Midnight Man - Where to Watch and Stream Online . 2024-03-23 . Entertainment.ie . en . British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme that could result in trouble between China and Great Britain. - Written by Ørnås.
  62. Web site: Elley . Derek . 1997-06-01 . A Further Gesture . 2024-03-23 . Variety . en-US.
  63. Web site: Stratton . David . 1997-09-28 . The Informant . 2024-03-23 . Variety . en-US.
  64. Web site: Smith . Russell . 1997-11-14 . Movie Review: The Jackal . 2024-03-21 . www.austinchronicle.com . en-US . Planet Hollywood co-owner Willis, looking every bit the fat and prosperous restaurateur, is the title character, a sort Demi-god (as it were) among hit men. Hired by a Russian-based gangster to kill the FBI director, he is pursued by an American G-man (Poitier), a Russian military policewoman (Venora), and the good guys' secret weapon, an Irish Republican Army sniper (Gere), who is giving them the benefit of his terrorist savvy in exchange for a chance to get out of prison..
  65. Web site: Porzio . Stephen . 2022-12-31 . 25 years ago, an underrated Irish sports drama arrived in cinemas . 2024-03-23 . JOE.ie . en-US.
  66. Web site: Chute . David . 1998-12-20 . The Don of Dublin . 2024-03-21 . Los Angeles Times . en-US . The movie’s title character, Martin Cahill (played by Brendan Gleeson), was Dublin’s most notorious criminal mastermind of the 1980s. A brilliant tactician and a meticulous planner (hence his military nickname) who pulled off some of the richest and most elaborate jewel robberies and art thefts the city had even seen. But Cahill (the Irish say “Cah-hill,” not “Cay-hill”) was also a brutal gang boss from one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods, infamous for inflicting brutal punishments upon anyone who crossed him. He was also a bit of a folk hero, an anarchic free spirit who enjoyed tweaking authority figures of all sorts, from the Garda (the Irish national police force) to the self-righteous vigilantes of the Irish Republican Army. It was an IRA hit man who put an end to Cahill’s tumultuous career in August 1994..
  67. Web site: Rooney . David . 1998-06-08 . Titanic Town . 2024-03-23 . Variety . en-US.
  68. Book: Costello, Mary . Titanic Town . Methuen Publishing Ltd . 2000 . 9780413772107 . 1993.
  69. Web site: 2012-09-10 . Divorcing Jack . 2024-03-23 . Time Out Worldwide . en-GB.
  70. Book: Bateman, Colin . Divorcing Jack . Arcade Publishing . 1996 . 9781559703598 . 1995.
  71. Web site: O'Sullivan . Michael . 1998-09-25 . 'Ronin' (R) . 2024-03-22 . The Washington Post.
  72. Web site: 2011-06-05 . Craic, The Reviews, Trailers, News, Interviews, Discussion SBS Film . 2024-03-22 . SBS.
  73. Web site: Power . Paul . 1999-09-06 . Exiled . 2024-03-22 . Variety . en-US.
  74. Web site: BBC News UK Britain's 'secret war' . 2024-03-22 . news.bbc.co.uk.
  75. Web site: Borstal Boy . 2024-03-22 . Irish Film Institute . en . Brendan Behan, as a sixteen year old Irish republican, sets off on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia in England. Forced to live face to face with those he perceived as the enemy, a confrontation reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing..
  76. Book: Behan, Brendan . Borstal Boy . Hutchinson . 1958 . 185635608.
  77. Web site: 2011-02-16 . Producer vows appeal after judge tosses lawsuit . 2024-03-22 . Irish Echo . The comedy pitted two wig salesmen against the IRA, the RUC, and the British Army, in turbulent 1980s Belfast. The duo, one Catholic and the other Protestant, try to sell as many hairpieces as possible throughout the fraught and dangerous city..
  78. News: McLean . Gareth . 2001-04-02 . Escape from Ballykissangel . 2024-03-22 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077 . Kirwan isn't daft. In The Bombmaker, she has found a very commercial vehicle. In it, she plays Andrea Hayes, a Dublin wife and mother whose past - as an IRA bombsmith - comes back to haunt her when her daughter is kidnapped. As a ransom, the abductors demand Andrea's services in the creation of a giant bomb which they plan to detonate in the City of London. If Andrea refuses, she will never see her daughter - an impossibly cute munchkin named Katie, complete with blonde ringlets - again. Thus she has to choose between the life of her daughter and the lives of thousands of people who could be caught in the bomb blast. Much handwringing and racing against time ensues..
  79. Book: Leather, Stephen . The Bombmaker . Hodder Paperbacks . 1999 . 9780340689561.
  80. Web site: Swastika and the Shamrock, The . 2024-03-22 . Irish Film Institute . en.
  81. Web site: H3 . 2024-03-21 . Irish Film Institute . en . Set in the H-Blocks of the Maze prison in the North of Ireland, and co-written by Laurence McKeown who spent 70 days on hunger strike, H3 charts the period up until Bobby Sands’ death on 5th May 1981. Through the eyes of fictional characters, the hunger strikers’ survival is charted with dignity, comradeship and a sense of humour..
  82. News: 2002-10-06 . French award for Bloody Sunday . 2024-03-21 . en-GB . Bloody Sunday, about the killing of 13 civilians in Londonderry by the British army in 1972, won the Hitchcock d'Or best film prize at the Dinard British Film Festival..
  83. News: Cozens . Claire . 2002-09-23 . C4 Bloody Sunday drama scoops Prix Italia . 2024-03-22 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077 . Sunday, written by Cracker creator Jimmy McGovern and starring Ciaran McMenamin, Christopher Eccleston and Corin Redgrave, aired earlier this year and was widely praised for its retelling of the story of the massacre on the streets of Derry in 1972. McGovern and his team interviewed soldiers, priests, journalists and politicians to help ensure the drama was accurate, as well as trawling through evidence presented to the original government inquiry under Lord Chief Justice Widgery..
  84. Web site: British Council Film: Boxed . 2024-03-22 . film-directory.britishcouncil.org.
  85. Web site: 2014-09-22 . The Maze (2002) . 2024-03-22 . The A.V. Club . en . The history of the notorious Maze prison and its role in the Northern Ireland conflict..
  86. News: Stanford . Peter . 2004-05-08 . Day of death . 2024-03-21 . The Observer . en-GB . 0029-7712 . We're in Navan, north west of Dublin, on the set of Omagh, a big Channel 4 drama that is guaranteed to provoke controversy when it is aired later this month. On Saturday 15 August 1998, the Real IRA put a 500lb bomb in a car, parked it on Market Street in Omagh, a small town in Northern Ireland, and left it to explode in the middle of the shoppers, killing 29 people from all sides in the community..
  87. News: Stein . Ruthe . Walking on thin gender line in search of love . 2024-03-22 . . en.
  88. Web site: The Year London Blew Up: 1974 . 2024-03-22 . Blast Films . en-US . Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this revealing film is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain..
  89. Web site: Johnny Was (2006) . 2024-03-22 . The A.V. Club . en . Johnny Was is a gritty gangster drama set in the tough city of Brixton, London. Johnny (Vinnie Jones) is trying to escape his violent past by living a simple "quiet life"..
  90. Web site: The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) . 2024-03-22 . BFI . en . In Ken Loach’s acclaimed war drama, Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney play brothers who join the Irish Republican Army in 1920 after witnessing the killing of a friend at the hands of the Black and Tans, the British body employed to suppress revolution in Ireland. As the conflict gets increasingly violent and friends and family are tortured and murdered, the brothers become ideologically divided, with tragic results..
  91. Web site: The Wind That Shakes The Barley - Screen Ireland . 2024-03-22 . www.screenireland.ie . Ireland 1919: Damian and Teddy are brothers fighting in a guerrilla war for Irish independence from the British, where the Irish workers unite to ambush the notorious Black and Tan squads. Through his military experience Damian, a trained doctor, becomes politicised. When a treaty giving an apparent level of victory to the fighters is signed between the British and Irish in 1921, the brothers find themselves pitted against each other. Civil War ensues and betrayals become inevitable....
  92. Web site: I.R.A.: King of Nothing (2006) . 2024-03-22 . The A.V. Club . en . A disgruntled I.R.A. member (Chapa) becomes Ireland's biggest threat to the peace process..
  93. News: Bennett . Ronan . 2009-04-02 . The trouble with the Troubles . 2024-03-22 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  94. Book: McGartland, Martin . Fifty Dead Men Walking . John Blake Publishing Ltd . 1998 . 9781857822014 . London, United Kingdom.
  95. News: Bradshaw . Peter . 2008-10-31 . Hunger review – gets across the nauseous reality of the ‘dirty protest’ . 2024-03-22 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  96. News: Holmwood . Leigh . 2008-05-08 . Nesbitt and Neeson set for Ulster drama . 2024-03-22 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  97. Web site: Voices from the Grave (2011) Watch Free Documentaries Online . 2024-03-22 . Docur . en . Voices from the Grave, a 2010 RTE documentary based on the book "Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland" by Ed Moloney which examines how the IRA (Irish Republican Army) developed from a brutal guerrilla movement to a governmental party. In the documentary Voices from the Grave, a truly ground-breaking piece of historical evidence is unearthed. Two former paramilitary leaders - one Republican, one loyalist - speak with unprecedented frankness about their role in some of the most appalling violence of the Troubles..
  98. Book: Maloney, Ed . Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland . Faber & Faber . 2010 . 9780571253203.
  99. News: Wise . Damon . 2012-01-25 . Sundance 2012: Shadow Dancer – review . 2024-03-22 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  100. Book: Bradby, Tom . Shadow Dancer . Corgi Books . 1999 . 9780552145862 . 1998.
  101. Web site: 2016-03-25 . '71 (2014) BFI . deviated . https://web.archive.org/web/20160325041043/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7409c19e . 2016-03-25 . 2024-03-21 . British Film Institute . Gary Hook, a new recruit to the British Army, is deployed to Belfast during the Troubles in 1971. Shortly after arriving, Hook is accidentally left behind by his unit following a street riot. Abandoned in a disorientating and deadly environment, Hook attempts to survive the night and find his way to safety..
  102. News: 2015-09-29 . Filming to begin on Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness 'Chuckle Brothers' comedy drama 'The Journey' . 2024-03-21 . BelfastTelegraph.co.uk . en-GB . 0307-1235 . Filming is to begin tomorrow of the comedy drama The Journey, which tells the story of the unlikely friendship between the late Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. The film will tell the story of how the one-time enemies came together to herald the beginning of a new power-sharing agreement between the DUP and Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland..
  103. Web site: RTÉ announces new Irish drama series ‘Rebellion’ The Irish Film & Television Network . 2024-03-22 . www.iftn.ie.
  104. Web site: Travers . Peter . 2017-10-11 . 'The Foreigner': Jackie Chan Goes the 'Taken' Route in Revenge Thriller . 2024-03-21 . Rolling Stone . en-US . His low-key character, named Quan Ngoc Minh, is an immigrant restaurant owner in London. Then the man’s life is shattered when his teen daughter Fan (Katie Leung) becomes collateral damage in a terrorist bomb attack. The culprits, Northern Irish radicals who call themselves the new IRA, escape justice. Quan decides to wage his own war..
  105. Web site: Ferguson . Amanda . 2017-09-14 . Maze IRA movie is about ‘dialogue’ not ‘glorification’, says writer . 2024-03-21 . The Irish Times . en . Based on the real-life story of the 1983 Maze prison break-out orchestrated by republican Larry Marley, the movie explores the story of 38 IRA prisoners’ H-Block escape, with varying degrees of success, from one of Europe’s most high-security prisons..
  106. Web site: McEvoy . Dermot . 2019-01-07 . Irish War of Independence drama "Resistance" opens with a bang . 2024-03-22 . IrishCentral.com . en.
  107. News: O’Hanlon . Eilis . 2019-10-16 . Eilis O’Hanlon: BBC NI’s The Troubles: A Secret History has produced some jaw-dropping revelations about the ‘dirty war’ ... but are younger viewers tuning in, or tuning out? . 2024-03-22 . BelfastTelegraph.co.uk . en-GB . 0307-1235.
  108. Web site: ‘Baltimore’ Review: Imogen Poots Leads A Moody & Jagged Drama About Heiress Turned Marxist Radical [Telluride] ]. 2024-03-21 . theplaylist.net . To Molloy and Lawlor, “Baltimore”—about a group of rebels who carried out an armed raid on a cherished Palladian stately house, in which 19 art masterpieces were stolen (including Rubens, Goya, and Vermeer) in an effort to support the IRA’s armed struggle— and its protagonist, Rose Dugdale, a privileged English debutante turned IRA-sympathizing dissident is clearly personal..
  109. Web site: Power . Ed . 2024-03-28 . The Secret Army review: Extraordinary story of lost IRA documentary told in gripping style . 2024-03-28 . The Irish Times . en.
  110. Web site: Exposed: The true story of a lost documentary. . 2024-03-28 . BBC News.

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