"Hit Irish drama..." – Sunday Mirror

"...a great performance from Tony Doyle..." – The Independent

"One of the finest TV dramas... emotional..." – Birmingham Evening Mail

WINNER - Best Television Drama - Irish Film and Television Academy Awards / WINNER - Best Leading Performance Tony Doyle - Irish Film and Television Academy Awards / WINNER - Best Mini-Series - Banff World Television Awards / NOMINEE - Best Drama Serial - BAFTA Awards

A family bound together by love and fear

Based on John McGahern’s award winning novel and set in 1950’s rural Ireland, this is the searingly truthful story of embittered ex-IRA soldier Michael Moran (Tony Doyle – A Love Divided, Ballykissangel), a brutal, domineering patriarch. Widowed and desperate to keep his family together, he succeeds only in driving his children from him. His daughters, bound together by love and fear of him, struggle painfully to establish their own lives away from the family home, while his sons, resentful of his harsh and at times, violent discipline, manage to break free – and break his heart.

Also Starring: Ger Ryan (Malice Aforethought), Susan Lynch (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Geraldine O’Rawe (The Harpist), Ann-Marie Duff (Notes on a Scandal), Brían F. O’Byrne (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)

approx. 219 mins.