
25 Dec 1999

Angela's Ashes
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
An IRA man races to Dublin to warn his colleagues of a forthcoming raid, but he is captured by British forces.
Denis O'Hara
Moira Barry, a schoolteacher and Denis' fiancée
Mrs. O'Hara, Denis' mother
Mr. O'Hara, Denis' father
Gilbert Beecher, a gang leader of the poteen-makers
[later Lady Grace] Kitty Shanahan's daugher
Captain Kelly, commandant,Clonmore Battalion, IRA
Priest
Intelligence Officer, IRA headquarters
Schoolboy
man with cigar at Vaughan's Hotel
25 Dec 1999
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
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