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