The Hanging Gale

The Hanging Gale (1995)

The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One and BBC1 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, with support from the Irish Film Board. The serial, set in 1846 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.

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  • First Air Date: 1995-05-14
  • Last Air Date: 1995-06-04
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 4
  • Network: RTÉ One

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Seasons

  • Season 1

    4 Episodes

Trailer

Cast

  • Joe McGann

    Sean Phelan

  • Mark McGann

    Conor Phelan

  • Paul McGann

    Liam Phelan

  • Stephen McGann

    Daniel Phelan

  • Michael Kitchen

    Capt. William Townsend

  • Fiona Victory

    Maeve Phelan

  • Tina Kellegher

    Mary Dolan

  • Sean McGinley

    Ferry

  • Gerard McSorley

    Coulter

  • Joe Pilkington

    James Phelan

  • Ciarán Fitzgerald

    Joseph Phelan

  • Ciara Marley

    Molly Phelan

  • Barry Barnes

    Michael Dolan

  • Birdy Sweeney

    Patrick Dolan

  • Maire Ni Ghrainne

    Sarah Dolan

  • Mal Whyte

    McBride

  • Dave Duffy

    McCafferty

  • Peter Caffrey

    Doctor Davis

  • Joe Savino

    Meagher

  • B.J. Hogg

    Harkin

  • Gerry Walsh

    Brady

  • Oliver Maguire

    Mr Denny

  • Eileen Colgan

    Mrs Denny

  • Alan Standford

    Henry Jenkins

  • Liam Carney

    Shanahan

  • Seamus Moran

    Constable Coyle

  • Albie Woodington

    Sergeant Major

  • George Shane

    Brewster

  • Frank O'Sullivan

    Kerryman

  • Ian Beattie

    Brian Sweeney

  • Stephen Kennedy

    Martin

  • Dylan O'Connell

    Baby Hannah