The hanging gale

Dramatized story of the lives of four brothers portraying the devastating conditions under which the Irish people in Donegal lived in 1846 and 1847 at the time of the potato famine, when the poor were oppressed by high rents, violent evictions and starvation.

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"The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s."
"Dramatized story of the lives of four brothers portraying the devastating conditions under which the Irish people in Donegal lived in 1846 and 1847 at the time of the potato famine, when the poor were oppressed by high rents, violent evictions and starvation."@en
"The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans."@en
"The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans."
"Donegal 1846. Like much of Ireland, the small homestead of Galready is suffering a crippling potato blight. When an English landlord's agent puts loyalty to his employer before his own sympathy for the villager's plight, a bloody revenge threatens."@en
"Donegal 1846. Like much of Ireland, the small homestead of Galready is suffering a crippling potato blight. When an English landlord's agent puts loyalty to his employer before his own sympathy for the villager's plight, a bloody revenge threatens."
"In 1846, the Phelan family try to save their farm from damage during the Irish potato famine."
"Four brothers, four destinies - an epic and powerful mini-series of 4 episodes set at the time of the Irish famine and filmed amongst the dramatic countryside of County Donegal."
"The four brothers of the Phelan family take different paths to weather the effects of the Great Famine of 1846 combined with the landholding system, enforced locally in Donegal, Ireland, by the English landowner's agent, Captain Townsend."@en