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.
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Joe McGann
Sean Phelan
Mark McGann
Conor Phelan
Paul McGann
Liam Phelan
Stephen McGann
Daniel Phelan
Michael Kitchen
Capt. William Townsend
Fiona Victory
Maeve Phelan
Tina Kellegher
Mary Dolan
Sean McGinley
Ferry
Gerard McSorley
Coulter
Joe Pilkington
James Phelan
Ciarán Fitzgerald
Joseph Phelan
Ciara Marley
Molly Phelan
Barry Barnes
Michael Dolan
Birdy Sweeney
Patrick Dolan
Máire Ní Ghráinne
Sarah Dolan
Mal Whyte
McBride
Dave Duffy
McCafferty
Peter Caffrey
Doctor Davis
Joe Savino
Meagher
B.J. Hogg
Harkin
Season 1
4 episodes · 1995
1979
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2019
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2023
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