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Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George, co-written by Jim Sheridan, and based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze Prison, in Northern Ireland.
Oct 21, 2017 · Check Out Updated Version Of This Movie • Some Mother's Son Eng Subs Some Mother's Son 1996 Movie depicts the lives of the hunger strikers, when jailed in the Maze Prison during The...
Dec 25, 1996 · Some Mother's Son: Directed by Terry George. With Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara. The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war.
Apr 20, 2015 · Some Mother's Son Trailer 1996 Director: Bill Whelan Starring: Fionnula Flanagan, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Aidan Gillen, David Patrick O'Hara, ...more.
Dec 27, 1996 · Now comes “Some Mother's Son,” a fictionalized account of the 1981 IRA hunger strikers of Belfast's Maze Prison, who broke the iron policies of Margaret Thatcher after 10 of them died. (The issue: As self-proclaimed political prisoners, they did not want to wear criminals' prison uniforms.)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
In 1981, Kathleen Quigley (Helen Mirren), a soft-spoken Irish schoolteacher, is shocked to learn that her son, Gerard (Aidan Gillen), has been arrested for his involvement in the Irish Republican...
