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Silent Grace

A gripping story of friendship and survival.

01 Jul 2001
  • Ireland
87 mins
0
0 votes
  • Drama
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In 1976 the British Government put an end to the special category status of prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, no longer treating them as prisoners of war, but as common criminals. Mairéad Farrell – on whose life much of the film seems to be loosely based – was the first woman Republican to be refused political status in 1976. By 1980, when the film is set, Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister and doggedly resolute: “There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime.” Silent Grace seeks to capture the struggle for the restoration of political status that was at the heart of prison protests in Northern Ireland – not just by the more celebrated male prisoners – but by a smaller number of women prisoners, led by Farrell, at the Armagh Women’s Prison.
  • Orla Brady

    as Eileen
  • Cathleen Bradley

    as Aine Quinn
  • Conor Mullen

    as Cunningham
  • Cara Seymour

    as Margaret
  • Rob Newman

    as Father McGarry
  • Dawn Bradfield

    as Geraldine
  • Patrick Bergin

    as Peter (as Patrick Connolly Bergin)
  • Michael Liebman

    as Warden Mark (as Michael Liebman)
  • Marc O'Shea

    as Kevin Wheelan
  • Sarah Boyd-Wilson

    as Ann Bates
  • Dean Pritchard

    as Patsy
  • Ita Campbell

    as Nuala

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