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15/10/2021 Drama, Thriller 1h 30m
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As a country starves, survival is everything.

Overview

Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irishmen.

  1. Tomás Ó Súilleabháin

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Dónall Ó Héalai

    Coleman Sharkey

  2. Saise Quinn

    Kitty

  3. Dara Devaney

    Patsy

  4. Eoin O'Dubhghaill

    Seán

  5. Dudura O'Gionnáin

    Dónal

  6. Michael O'Chonfhlaola

    PJ

  7. Siobhán O'Kelly

    Áine

  8. Eimear Ní Mháille

    Mary

  9. Seán T. Ó Meallaigh

    Séamus

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-01-24
"Colmán Sharkey" (a strong performance from Dónall Ó Héalai) lives peaceably with his wife and young son on the West Coast of Ireland. They live a pretty subsistence existence, supplementing their basic potato farming with some fishing and a thriving little poteen business. Their livelihoods become doubly blighted, however, upon the arrival of "Patsy" (Dara Devaney) - a naval deserter; and with the bug that ruins their crops. It's at this point they get a visit from the agents for the English landlord to collect the rents, so "Colmán" decides they ought to go visit the man - with whom he ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Irish

Budget
$1.00

Revenue
$0.00

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