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