Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a Britain prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of the war.
""Surrounded by the conflict in Northern Ireland, Kathleen Quigley has managed to stay clear of it, devoting herself to her three children. Yet in a single moment, the war claims her as one of its living victims. Kathleen is caught in an inescapable political crossfire when her son, actively involved with the IRA, is jailed by the British"--Container."
"In 1981 probeert een moeder alles te doen om haar zoon te redden die in hongerstaking is gegaan in een Ierse gevangenis na te zijn veroordeeld tot een lange straf wegens terroristische aanslagen van de IRA."
"A film about the mothers of IRA-affiliated sons who were jailed by the British at the period when IRA member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike, and was elected to Parliament while in an Ulster prison (ca. 1979-1981)."
"Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a Britain prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of the war."@en
"Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a Britain prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of the war."
"In 1981, twenty-one Irish mothers faced that dilemma when their sons went on hunger strike to get first the British Government of Margaret Thatcher to recognize them as political prisoners rather than as common criminals. Some Mother's Son tells the story of two such mothers, Kathleen Quigley (Helen Mirren) and Annie Higgins (Fionnula Flanagan), ordinary Irish women from different backgrounds, forced to the center of an epic struggle between British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and IRA prisoners led by Bobby Sands."
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Northern Ireland Politics And Government 1969-1994 Drama.
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