Release Date
December 25, 1996
Director
Terry George
Writers
Jim Sheridan, Terry George (in alphabetical order)
Producers
Arthur Lappin, Edward Burke, Jim Sheridan, Kate O'Callaghan, Patrick Farrelly (in alphabetical order)
Genres
Drama, History
Synopsis
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.