Some Mother's Son

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.

Cast

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

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