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
Sean Lawlor
Platoon Leader
Tony Flynn
Cyclist
David O'Hara
Frank Higgins
Gerard McSorley
Father Daly
Richard Butler
MP (uncredited)
Jer O'Leary
Hunger Striker #1
Jennifer Gibney
Woman Searcher #2
Tim Woodward
Harrington
Geraldine O'Rawe
Alice Quigley
Mal Whyte
Barrister
Anthony Brophy
Prisoner's Leader
Peter Howitt
SAS Leader
Joan Sheehy
Woman Searcher #1
Barry Cassin
Prosecutor
Dan Gordon
Inspector McPeake
Ciarán Hinds
Danny Boyle
Stephen Hogan
Young Turk
Bosco Hogan
British Captain
Michael O'Sullivan
Prison Officer Davis
Helen Mirren
Kathleen Quigley
John Kavanagh
Cardinal
Doreen Keogh
Mother Superior
Ciarán Fitzgerald
Liam Quigley
Fionnula Flanagan
Annie Higgins
Aidan Gillen
Gerard Quigley
Tom Hollander
Farnsworth
Oliver Maguire
Frank Maguire
Tim McDonnell
Hunger Striker #2
John Lynch
Bobby Sands
Robert Lang
Government Minister