Hanging Gale, The
BBC Video

Sleeve Sypnosis:
Four brothers
Four destines
in famine ravaged Ireland.

Donegal, 1846. Like much of Ireland, the small homestead of Galeady suffers a crippling potato blight. The villagers' lives, already ravaged by harsh rents and violent evictions, are thrown into turnmoil. The threat of eviction breaks the Phelan family. Sean Phelan struggles to feed his wife and children, while Con lays his life on the line, stick-fighting to earn enough to pay their rent. Schoolteacher Daniel turns to the violent rebel movement, while Liam, the parish priest, fights to keep his faith in the midst of despair.

When the English Landlord's agent puts loyality to his employer before his own sympathy for the villager's plight, they must make their own choices. To fight for their home or go to the Poorhouse; to go on the run or face the horrors of gaol; to pray for easier times or seek a bloody revenge.

© A Little Bird production in association with Kensington Fields for BBC Nothern Ireland in association with RTE

Director: Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast: Joe McGann, Mark McGann, Paul McGann, Stephen McGann, Michael Kitchen, Fiona Victory, Tina Kellegher, Seán McGinley, Gerard McSorley, Joe Pilkington, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Ciara Marley, Dylan O'Connell, Barry Barnes, Birdy Sweeney, Maire Ni Ghrainne, Mal Whyte, Dave Duffy, Peter Caffrey, Joe Savino, B. J. Hogg, Gerry Walsh, Oliver Maguire, Eileen Colgan, Alan Stanford, Liam Carney Seamus Moran, Albie Woodington, George Shane, Frank O'Sullivan, Ian Beattie, Stephen Kennedy

Year: 1995

Genre: Television, Drama

Additional Notes:
Run Time Approx: 198 mins.