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Birdy Sweeney

Birdy Sweeney

Birdy Sweeney was an Irish actor best remembered for his regular role in TV drama Ballykissangel. His name came from his uncanny ability to mimic birdsong.

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Movies Starring Birdy Sweeney (17)

The Poorhouse Revisited (2011)

In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, an elderly gravedigger revisits a traumatic event through the decaying visions of his fragmented dreams. ...

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Angela's Ashes (1999)

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions. ...

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Divorcing Jack (1998)

He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. ...

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The Nephew (1998)

Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. Soon, Chad fa ...

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The Butcher Boy (1998)

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tr ...

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Downtime (1997)

Ex-police psychologist Rob has plenty of problems of his own. Having retired through ill health, he is quite aware that he is not the best person to talk down suicidal single mother Chrissy when she threatens to throw herself off a Newcastle tower block. R ...

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Space Truckers (1996)

John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be a multitude of unstoppable killer robots. ...

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The Snapper (1993)

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town. ...

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The Crying Game (1992)

Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when ...

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Journey to Knock (1991)

Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo. ...

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Arise and Go Now (1991)

Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. ...

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Reefer and the Model (1988)

Comerford's signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. They head to the trawler where he lives with friends Spider and Badger, that operates ...

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The Temptation of Eileen Hughes (1988)

The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London ... ...

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Naming the Names (1987)

Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that... ...

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The End of the World Man (1986)

When some Belfast children find out that city planners intend to "develop" a wooded area called the Glen that the girls use as a retreat from the pressures of city life, they decide to fight back - but in their own way. ...

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The Cry (1984)

Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indif ...

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A Woman Calling (1984)

Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him. ...

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