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