In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

Cillian Murphy
as Damien

Pádraic Delaney
as Teddy

Liam Cunningham
as Dan

Orla Fitzgerald
as Sinead

Mary O'Riordan
as Peggy

Mary Murphy
as Bernadette

Laurence Barry
as Micheail

Damien Kearney
as Finbar

Frank Bourke
as Leo

Myles Horgan
as Rory
Andres Gomez
Intense drama about Ireland's independence from the UK and the ultimate reasons for the need of freedom....
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After watching The Wind That Shakes the Barley, I'm tempted to say that Hollywood ruined Cillian Murphy, but the fact is that this drama written by Paul Laverty and directed by Ken Loach doesn’t really establish, for better or worse, a before and after in the career of the Irish actor; it's more a c...
CinemaSerf
Though quite provocative, I was really disappointed with the anti-British simplicity of this drama. It all centres around two brothers - "Teddy" (Pádraic Delaney) and "Damien" (Cillian Murphy) and the increasingly desperate - and violent - tactics they employed to eject the occupiers from their coun...