Some Mother's Son
Between love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make.
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
Geraldine O'Rawe
Alice Quigley
Gerard McSorley
Father Daly
Dan Gordon
Inspector McPeake
Richard Butler
MP (uncredited)
Barry Cassin
Prosecutor
Fionnula Flanagan
Annie Higgins
Ciarán Hinds
Danny Boyle
Robert Lang
Government Minister
John Kavanagh
Cardinal
Jer O'Leary
Hunger Striker #1
Peter Howitt
SAS Leader
Mal Whyte
Barrister
Anthony Brophy
Prisoner's Leader
Helen Mirren
Kathleen Quigley
Aidan Gillen
Gerard Quigley
Stephen Hogan
Young Turk
Ciarán Fitzgerald
Liam Quigley
Michael O'Sullivan
Prison Officer Davis
Oliver Maguire
Frank Maguire
David O'Hara
Frank Higgins
John Lynch
Bobby Sands
Tim Woodward
Harrington
Tim McDonnell
Hunger Striker #2
Tom Hollander
Farnsworth
Doreen Keogh
Mother Superior
Jennifer Gibney
Woman Searcher #2
Bosco Hogan
British Captain
Joan Sheehy
Woman Searcher #1
Sean Lawlor
Platoon Leader
Tony Flynn
Cyclist