Under the Hawthorn Tree (1998)
Synopsis
Ireland, 1845, and the potato crop has failed, bringing terrible hunger and plague. Everywhere people are dying or emigrating. The family of young Eily, Michael and Peggy, around whom this story revolves, does not escape. Their baby sister dies and is buried under a hawthorn tree. Their mother leaves them alone to go in search of their father. The children are determined to avoid certain death in the workhouse, where the poor are sent. So they set off on the dangerous journey across Ireland to find their great-aunts, Nano and Lena, whom they have only heard about in their mother’s stories.
Release Date: 1998-03-01
Runtime: 90 minutes
Director: Bronagh Murphy
Top Cast
- Liane Murphy as Eily O'Driscoll
- Chris Bollard as Michael O'Driscoll
- Doireann Lawlor as Peggy O'Driscoll
- Oisin Bourke as Young Man at riot
- Aine Brennan as British Child (2)
- Lorcan Brennan as British Child (1)
- Collette Browne as Kitty Collins
- Richie Burke as Patsy Murphy
- John Cleere as School Master
- Ger Cody as Dan Collins
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