Some Mother's Son

Between love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make.

Some Mother's Son

Drama|

History|

6/10

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.

Helen Mirren

Fionnula Flanagan

Aidan Gillen

David O'Hara

John Lynch

Tom Hollander

Tim Woodward

Ciarán Hinds

Geraldine O'Rawe

Gerard McSorley

Dan Gordon

Grainne Delany

Ciarán Fitzgerald

Robert Lang

Stephen Hogan

Peter Howitt

Bosco Hogan

Jimmy Keogh

John Kavanagh

Oliver Maguire

Doreen Keogh

Anna Megan

Hugh O'Donnell

John Higgins

Joan Sheehy

Mal Whyte

Alan Barry

Barry Cassin

Brian Mallon

Sean Lawlor

Michael Sherrie

James Hickey

Karen Carlisle

Fiona Higgins

Jer O'Leary

Tim McDonnell

Tony Flynn

Liam Byrne

Pat Mulryan

Valerie Roe

Deirdre McAliskey

Michael O'Sullivan

Jennifer Gibney

Robert Taylor

Kate Perry

Anthony Brophy

Mickey McEneaney

Patrick McEneaney

Gene Berrills

Ronan O'Donoghue

Richard Neilson

Richard Butler