Underplayed Gems

The Hanging Gale (1995)

The Hanging Gale poster
Directed by
Diarmuid Lawrence
Genre
historical drama
Country
United Kingdom, Ireland
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In 1846 County Donegal, during the start of the Great Famine, four brothers face the harsh realities of land tenancy and rent collection. The serial follows their struggle to survive and keep their family together as the famine tightens its grip.

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What happens

The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One (Republic of Ireland) and BBC1 (United Kingdom) in 1995. The series was a British–Irish co-production, made by Little Bird Films for BBC Northern Ireland in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), with support from the Irish Film Board. The serial, set in 1846 in County Donegal in the west of Ulster at the beginning of Ireland's Great Famine, starred the four McGann brothers: Joe McGann, Paul McGann, Mark McGann and Stephen McGann, and was based on an original idea by Joe and Stephen McGann while researching their family's history. The title of the series comes from the term 'hanging gale', the name for a widespread practice in Ireland at the time, where a landlord would allow new tenants a six-month grace period on payment of their rent, with the expectation that the rent owed would be paid when the land's crops were harvested and sold. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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