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Plot

The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One and BBC1 in 1995. The series was a British–Irish co-production, made by Little Bird Films for BBC Northern Ireland in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann, with support from the Irish Film Board. The serial, set in 1846 at the beginning of Ireland's Great Famine, starred the four McGann brothers: Joe McGann, Paul McGann, Mark McGann and Stephen McGann, and was based on an original idea by Joe and Stephen McGann while researching their family's history. The title of the series comes from the term 'hanging gale', the name for a widespread practice in Ireland at the time, where a landlord would allow new tenants a six-month grace period on payment of their rent, with the expectation that the rent owed would be paid when the land's crops were harvested and sold.

Cast

Joe McGann as Sean Phelan
Joe McGann

as Sean Phelan

Mark McGann as Conor Phelan
Mark McGann

as Conor Phelan

Paul McGann as Liam Phelan
Paul McGann

as Liam Phelan

Stephen McGann as Daniel Phelan
Stephen McGann

as Daniel Phelan

Michael Kitchen as Capt. William Townsend
Michael Kitchen

as Capt. William Townsend

Fiona Victory as Maeve Phelan
Fiona Victory

as Maeve Phelan

Tina Kellegher as Mary Dolan
Tina Kellegher

as Mary Dolan

Sean McGinley as Ferry
Sean McGinley

as Ferry

Gerard McSorley as Coulter
Gerard McSorley

as Coulter

Joe Pilkington as James Phelan
Joe Pilkington

as James Phelan

Network

Status

  • Ended

First Aired Date

  • May 14, 1995

Last Aired Date

  • June 4, 1995

Production Companies

    Type

    • Scripted

    Number of Season

    • 1

    Number of Episodes

    • 4

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