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.
Helen Mirren
as Kathleen Quigley
Fionnula Flanagan
as Annie Higgins
Aidan Gillen
as Gerard Quigley
David O'Hara
as Frank Higgins
John Lynch
as Bobby Sands
Tom Hollander
as Farnsworth
Tim Woodward
as Harrington
Ciarán Hinds
as Danny Boyle
Geraldine O'Rawe
as Alice Quigley
Gerard McSorley
as Father Daly
Dan Gordon
as Inspector McPeake
Grainne Delany
as Theresa Higgins
