As a country starves, survival is everything.
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.
- 6.8
- 2021
- Released
- 1h 30m
Dónall Ó Héalai
Coleman Sharkey
Saise Quinn
Kitty
Dara Devaney
PatsyEoin O'Dubhghaill
SeánDudura O'Gionnáin
DónalMichael O'Chonfhlaola
PJ
Siobhán O'Kelly
ÁineEimear Ní Mháille
Mary
Seán T. Ó Meallaigh
SéamusConal O'Céidigh
Dan
Michael McElhatton
Lieutenant
Elaine O'Dwyer
MargaretElise Brennan
KateParaic Breathnach
Fr. Joachin
Peter Coonan
Bailey
Diarmuid de Faoite
Joe PatMichelle Beamish
Bríd
Cillian O'Gairbhi
Pat MaddenPól Ó Ceannabháín
SaighdiúirCaylum Flynn
An Buachaill ar an mBádSonaí Sullivan
Guth Dhónaill Óg
Released
ga
$1.00
- #irish great potato famine (1845-52)
Reviews
"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 th