The Hanging Gale

The Hanging Gale

1995/05/14 - 1995/06/04 • Ended • 1 Seasons • English

Drama
4.3

Overview

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.

Creator(s) : N/A

Casts
Joe McGann

Joe McGann

Sean Phelan

Mark McGann

Mark McGann

Conor Phelan

Paul McGann

Paul McGann

Liam Phelan

Stephen McGann

Stephen McGann

Daniel Phelan

Michael Kitchen

Michael Kitchen

Capt. William Townsend

Fiona Victory

Fiona Victory

Maeve Phelan

Tina Kellegher

Tina Kellegher

Mary Dolan

Sean McGinley

Sean McGinley

Ferry

Gerard McSorley

Gerard McSorley

Coulter

Joe Pilkington

James Phelan

Ciarán Fitzgerald

Ciarán Fitzgerald

Joseph Phelan

Ciara Marley

Molly Phelan

Barry Barnes

Barry Barnes

Michael Dolan

Birdy Sweeney

Birdy Sweeney

Patrick Dolan

Maire Ni Ghrainne

Sarah Dolan

Mal Whyte

Mal Whyte

McBride

Dave Duffy

Dave Duffy

McCafferty

Peter Caffrey

Doctor Davis

Joe Savino

Meagher

B.J. Hogg

B.J. Hogg

Harkin

Gerry Walsh

Brady

Oliver Maguire

Oliver Maguire

Mr Denny

Eileen Colgan

Mrs Denny

Alan Standford

Henry Jenkins

Liam Carney

Liam Carney

Shanahan

Seamus Moran

Constable Coyle

Albie Woodington

Albie Woodington

Sergeant Major

George Shane

George Shane

Brewster

Frank O'Sullivan

Frank O'Sullivan

Kerryman

Ian Beattie

Ian Beattie

Brian Sweeney

Stephen Kennedy

Stephen Kennedy

Martin

Dylan O'Connell

Baby Hannah

Last Season
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Season 1
0.0

1995/05/14 • 4 Episodes

Season 1 of The Hanging Gale premiered on May 14, 1995

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