Film

Ireland, Mother Ireland

1971

Director: Piers Haggard
Year: 1971

A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, killed for a dream of freedom and died because they were betrayed.

Top cast

Sam Kydd

Conor Ingram

Dick Sullivan

Delamere

Denys Hawthorne

Paul Kincaid

Barry Linehan

Chief Prison Officer

Michael Guest

Second Prison Officer

Wesley Murphy

Prison Officer Hayes

Derry Power

Pretty Boy

Paddy Joyce

Hercules

Barry Keegan

Fitzpatrick

Bill McGuirk

Charlie Ryan

Frank Dunne

Daly, the Poet

P.G. Stephens

Murphy

Desmond Jordan

Duffy

Declan Mulholland

Fourth Prison Officer

Chris Gannon

Trusty

Liam Gaffney

Governor

John J. Carney

Fifth Prison Officer

Shane Connaughton

Sixth Prison Officer

Directed by

Piers Haggard

Written by

Dominic Behan

Produced by

John Kershaw