Laine Megaw

This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but insane of the brutal homicide of a young woman from a very prominent family. Told in superb period detail, Scapegoat contains a combustible mix of sex, class, bogus respectability and dark domestic secrets

Фильм рассказывает о борьбе заключённых из Ирландской республиканской армии за признание за собой статуса политических. Сначала они пытаются добиться этого, отказываясь мыться, носить тюремную одежду и всячески разводя грязь в своих камерах. Однако эта тактика не принесла плодов: узников насильно стригли и мыли, избивая при этом до полусмерти. Наконец, один из них — Бобби Сэндс — решает начать смертельную голодовку

Ирландия 1970-х годов, период вооруженных столкновений между протестантами и католиками. На улицах Белфаста идет постоянная стрельба, взрываются бомбы. Мальчишкам Микибо и Джоньо, родители которых принадлежат к враждующим лагерям, нет до этого дела: они живут по своим правилам в собственном мире, отличном от взрослого. Увлеченные романтикой гангстерской жизни знаменитых стрелков с Дикого Запада Буча Кэссиди и Санденса Кида, Микибо и Джоньо решают вместе бежать в Австралию…

Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.

Belfast, Christmas 1999. A poor, badly dressed woman is half walking, half stumbling down the road. She is tearful and her behaviour is so disturbed that passers-by look furtively at her before hurrying on. Her walk is purposeful though. She is hurrying to go somewhere specific. She stumbles towards a church that is lit up. As she approaches it we see a sign outside announcing "SERVICE FOR PEACE Belfast Christmas together. All Denominations, 8pm"

He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun

The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.