Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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Helen Mirren as Kathleen Quigley
Fionnula Flanagan as Annie Higgins
Aidan Gillen as Gerard Quigley
David O'Hara as Frank Higgins
John Lynch as Bobby Sands
Tom Hollander as Farnsworth
Tim Woodward as Harrington
Ciarán Hinds as Danny Boyle
Geraldine O'Rawe as Alice Quigley
Gerard McSorley as Father Daly
Dan Gordon as Inspector McPeake
Grainne Delany as Theresa Higgins
Ciarán Fitzgerald as Liam Quigley
Robert Lang as Government Minister
Stephen Hogan as Young Turk
Peter Howitt as SAS Leader
Bosco Hogan as British Captain
Jimmy Keogh as Jimmy Higgins
John Kavanagh as Cardinal
Oliver Maguire as Frank Maguire
Doreen Keogh as Mother Superior
Anna Megan as Rosie Quigley
Hugh O'Donnell as Paddy
John Higgins as John Deegan
Joan Sheehy as Woman Searcher #1
Mal Whyte as Barrister
Alan Barry as Judge
Barry Cassin as Prosecutor
Brian Mallon as Prison Officer Jones
Sean Lawlor as Platoon Leader
Michael Sherrie as Assistant Governor
James Hickey as Young Son
Karen Carlisle as Prisoner's Girlfriend
Fiona Higgins as Prisoner's Sister
Jer O'Leary as Hunger Striker #1
Tim McDonnell as Hunger Striker #2
Tony Flynn as Cyclist
Liam Byrne as Prisoner Murphy
Pat Mulryan as IRA Man #1
Valerie Roe as Girl in Farnsworth's Office
Deirdre McAliskey as Woman in Court
Michael O'Sullivan as Prison Officer Davis
Jennifer Gibney as Woman Searcher #2
Robert Taylor as Election Agent
Kate Perry as Prison Officer's Widow
Anthony Brophy as Prisoner's Leader
Mickey McEneaney as Merry Mac
Patrick McEneaney as Merry Mac
Gene Berrills as Merry Mac
Ronan O'Donoghue as Radio Announcer
Richard Neilson as Radio Announcer
Richard Butler as MP (uncredited)
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