Old Man in Gym
Irlanda del Norte, Belfast. Danny Flynn sale de la cárcel tras cumplir una sentencia de catorce años por su participación en actividades del IRA. Con la firme determinación de empezar una nueva vida, reabre en su barrio un viejo gimnasio para entrenar a jóvenes promesas del mundo del boxeo, sin ninguna clase de discriminación política o religiosa. Al mismo tiempo, reanuda la relación con su antigua novia, una mujer cuyo marido está en la cárcel. Pero los viejos fantasmas del pasado volverán
Flanagan
Irlanda, 1930. Un campesino trata de defender, a toda costa, la parcela de tierra que su familia ha cultivado durante generaciones y cuya subasta pública es inminente. Ni siquiera su propio hijo parece decidido a defender su legado de sangre.
Devlin
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
Graveyard Caretaker
John Connor is a soon-to-retire hitman that agrees to take on one last job. After years plying his deadly trade, he has finally had enough. Seeking to retire to Dublin and maybe salvage his dying marriage, Connor wants to leave the lonely world of the marksman behind him and melt into the background. Unfortunately, his handler O'Neal is reluctant to let him go, and, after much coertion, manages to talk him into accepting one final job.
Barman at Cat & Cage
A pesar de hacer los trabajos más duros y humildes, John Cassidy es un idealista que sueña con ser escritor. Pero le ha tocado vivir en Dublín, una ciudad que vive tiempos turbulentos por los motines y las huelgas de 1911, así que se dedica a repartir octavillas sediciosas. Por fin, llega el día en que termina de escribir un libro titulado "Historia del ejército popular irlandés", que, no sin dificultad, consigue publicar.
Jim Ruskin
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
Cleary
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
Gombeen Man
Película compuesta por tres historias independientes presentadas por Tyrone Power y con Irlanda como telón de fondo. En la primera, basada en un relato de Frank O'Connor titulado "The Majesty of the Law", se aborda el tema del orgullo y las viejas costumbres: un campesino prefiere ir a la cárcel antes que pagar una multa por haber dado una paliza a un vendedor de whisky de mala calidad. En la segunda, adaptación de la obra teatral de Martin J. McHugh "A Minute's Wait", se retrata el lento ritmo de la vida irlandesa utilizando como metáfora el sistemático retraso de un tren. La tercera, según un relato de Lady Gregroy, "The Rising of the Moon", trata la historia de un patriota irlandés que va a ser ejecutado.
