Dara Devaney
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
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The Drowning
Character: Ben
Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life but when she catches sight of Daniel, she is convinced she has found her missing son....
Above Suspicion
Character: Sean O'Dell
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC Anna Travis. The first series, Above Suspicion, was shown on the fourth and fifth of January 2009; the second series, Above Suspicion: The Red Dahlia, was shown on the fourth, fifth and sixth of January 2010. The third series, Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, was ...
An Klondike
Character: Séamus Connolly
The story of the Connolly Brothers; three Irish emigrants who travel from Montana to the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890’s in the hope of striking it rich where they become embroiled in a deadly feud with the man who runs the town....
Blackshore
Character: Liam McArdle
A police detective returns to her hometown and becomes involved in a missing person case, which is linked to her traumatic past and the town's dark history....
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Cré na Cille
Character: Fear Óg
Caitríona is dead and eagerly awaiting the death of her sister, Nell, so that the war between them in life can continue....
Lakelands
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The film centres on local small-town GAA football "outside the bright lights of Croke Park", following a player who struggles to get back into the sport after an injury....
Dead Shot
Character: Twomey
In the 1970s, a member of the IRA takes over an Active Service Unit in London after his wife is accidentally shot dead in Ireland. The unit's mission is to cause chaos and destruction, while his personal aim is to hunt down his wife’s killer — an SAS captain, who is also hunting him....
The Black Dog
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A young man and his elderly father are terrorised by a mysterious black dog in Connemara in 1910....
The Mám Trasna Murders
Character: Maolra Seoighe
The story of barbaric murders committed in the midst of a rural community in Joyce Country, on the border between counties Galway and Mayo in 1882 and the subsequent trial in Dublin. The trial led to the unjust hanging or life imprisonment of innocent people based on the testimonies of false witnesses and the dishonesty of the British authorities and the gentry....
The Sparrow
Character: Manny
A teenager lies about his brother's death and struggles to face the consequences that unfold until his domineering father offers the possibility of forgiveness....
Prospect House
Character: Joe / Mr. Crowley
A group of protesters film a period re-enactment in a dilapidated 18th century house in a last ditch effort to save it from demolition. Through this film-within-a-film device, Paul Mercier’s satirical script gleefully blurs the lines between “real life” and dramatised events, while touching on a dizzying range of themes such as art, historical truth and conservation. The film is fuelled by an anarchic energy and propelled by Mel Mercier’s driving score....
The Gift
Character: JJ Magill
A lifeboat crew discovers millions of euros worth of drugs on a fishing boat off the coast of Connemara....
Rúbaí
Character: An Máistir
As her classmates prepare for their First Holy Communion, Rubai announces that she is an atheist and refuses to participate....
Float Like a Butterfly
Character: Michael
Irish Traveller Frances has to fight for the right to pursue her passion... boxing. She is determined to make her idol Muhammad Ali proud, as well as her father who has recently been released from prison. But when she wants to show him just how tough she is, she soon comes to realise he's got other plans for her....
Penance
Character: Peadar
Unequivocal about the need for violence to force Britain out of Ireland, Father Eoin O’Donnell seals the fate of the young and impressionable Antaine by convincing him to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later, the reappearance of the now-experienced gunman Antaine in a divided Derry throws Father O’Donnell into turmoil. Once allies, the pair are now placed on opposite sides of the same agenda....
Arracht
Character: Patsy
Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irishmen....
Finky
Character: Micí Finky Ó Foghlú
A young musician with a tragic past is crippled in a car accident and given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent, avant-garde circus....
Pursuit
Character: Vincent
Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller for a contemporary audience....