Uncle Tommy
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?
Detective
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.
Speaker in the Dail
Em 1916, na Irlanda, Michael Collins é preso em virtude de participar de uma manifestação contra a presença inglesa em seu país. É neste período que ele passa a acreditar que a guerrilha poderá levar seus compatriotas ao fim de uma submissão ao governo inglês, que dura 700 anos. Assim é criado o Exército Republicano Irlandês, o IRA, conseguindo em 1921 realizar o primeiro acordo de paz com os ingleses, quando fundou a República da Irlanda do Norte. Mas a paz almejada foi apenas o início de um conflito entre Irlanda do Norte e Inglaterra, que permanece até os dias de hoje.
Mr. Connolly
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
'One Day Time' is a drama about a day in the life of a young Dublin man from Ballymun who is unemployed. It explores Eddie's sense of isolation and anxiety about his place in the world as he passes yet another seemingly pointless day.
