Tom Hickey
Nascimento : 1944-01-01, Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
Morte : 2021-05-01
Priest
No verão antes de começar a universidade, o menino de ouro Richard Karlsen faz algo que destrói o seu futuro. Richard tem de lidar com a diferença entre a pessoa que ele pensava ser e a pessoa que ele acaba se tornando
Bishop Hegarty
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
Frank
A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards her new neighbors and her old friends
Mr Skerrit
Tido por seus vizinhos como um inofensivo desajustado, que motiva bondade, tolerância e ocasional abuso, Josie passou toda sua vida adulta como guarda de um decadente posto de gasolina nos arredores de uma pequena cidade no meio-oeste da Irlanda. Ele é limitado, solitário, apesar de sempre otimista e, ao seu modo, feliz. Até que, durante o decurso de um verão, o mundo de Josie sofre mudanças. Um adolescente, David, chega para trabalhar com ele.
Con O'Shea
Sinopse Rory (James McAvoy) é um jovem rebelde, bem humorado, que fala o que pensa, não liga para as convenções sociais, nem para nada, nem para ninguém. Seu oposto é Michael (Steven Robertson), que sempre levou uma vida completamente sem graça e enfadonha. O que estas duas pessoas tão diferentes poderiam ter em comum? A resposta é ao mesmo tempo simples e cruel: Rory é tetraplégico e Michael tem paralisia cerebral. Descontentes com as regras da vida , estes dois amigos inusitados planejam deixar a instituição onde estão internados com a ajuda de Siobhan (Romola Garai) para que eles finalmente atinjam seus objetivos: viver a vida em toda a sua intensidade. Mas quais as surpresas que o mundo fora dos portões da instituição irão revelar aos dois rapazes?
Blackadder
Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), uma brilhante acadêmica inglesa, está pesquisando a vida e a obra do poeta Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) é um americano que está em Londres para estudar Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), conhecido por uma coleção de poemas dedicado a sua mulher. Quando Maud e Roland descobrem um pacote de cartas que parecem ser de Ash para La Motte, seguem uma série de pistas pela Inglaterra, ecoando a jornada do casal mais de um século depois.
Mr. Hayes
After spending time in New York City, Billy Hayes returns to his Ireland hometown. He wants to get back together with his ex-girlfriend and take her to America in hopes of opening up a gas station. But everything isn't going Billy's way — the townspeople aren't happy to see him, and his ex-girlfriend is engaged and pregnant. Then, Billy runs into his old friends who are planning a scam.
Satirical take on the reactions of the inhabitants of an Irish village when they learn that a group of thirty asylum seekers is to be relocated to their village.
O'Brien
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice.
Gardener
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
Mr Costello
Liam muda-se da Irlanda para os EUA, onde se instala no Bronx. Lá ele trabalha em um pequeno bar de propriedade do italiano Mario e vive com outros imigrantes ilegais que têm medo de serem expulsos do país e não têm certeza de seu lugar em sua nova vida, incluindo seu primo Des.
Freddie Reynalde
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Dean
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
Father Barry
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
Blossom
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
Eamonn Duggan
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
Tommy
Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her and even follows her home. She, too, seems to like him, but for a mysterious reason keeps him at a distance.
Father Kilgarrif
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Father Seamus
Brian e Charlie são dois vigaristas que roubaram um chefão e são obrigados a se refugiar num convento, de onde saem disfarçados de freiras e perseguidos pela máfia e pela polícia.
Priest
Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), o filho de uma humilde família irlandesa, nasce com uma paralisia cerebral que lhe tira todos os movimentos do corpo, com a exceção do pé esquerdo. Com apenas este movimento Christy consegue, no decorrer de sua vida, se tornar escritor e pintor.
Sampson
Peter está prestes a perder o castelo de sua família na Irlanda, e decide atrair hóspedes anunciando que ele é assombrado. Entretanto, a ficção torna-se realidade, e turistas americanos são assombrados e seduzidos por ancestrais de Peter.
Tour Guide
Living in an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
Preacher
Cal (John Lynch) é um jovem membro do IRA que vive um romance com Marcella (Helen Mirren), uma mulher católica que teve seu marido, um policial protestante, morto pela organização terrorista um ano antes de se conhecerem.
Pub manager
Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and her nine brothers and sisters in Dublin whilst her father is in England seeking his fortune.
Horowitz in Dublin (1973) - A forgotton curio filled with time capsule footage of the Irish capital, seemingly a pilot for a Brannigan-style series starring Harvey Lembeck a world away from either Bilko or Beach Party as a New York cop in Dublin, with Sinead and Cyril Cusack plus Al lettieri and Cesare Danova, plus the likes of Liam Redmond, Martin Dempsey and Tom Hickey. Seeing Lembeck surronded by Jacob's biscuit products is certainly a sight. Future Fair City regular Clive Geraghty plays the heroic sidekick. Was there an Irish Sunday Express in real life?
Pat Flynn
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.