The Hanging Gale (1995)
January 1, 1995Release Date
The Hanging Gale (1995)
January 1, 1995Release Date

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Cast & Crew.

Joe McGann
Sean Phelan

Mark McGann
Conor Phelan

Paul McGann
Liam Phelan

Stephen McGann
Daniel Phelan

Michael Kitchen
Captain William Townsend

Gerard McSorley
Coulter

Sean McGinley
Ferry

Tina Kellegher
Mary Dolan
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Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1995
StatusReleased
Filming LocationsRamelton, Ireland
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The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One (Republic of Ireland) and BBC1 (United Kingdom) 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 (RTÉ), with support from the Irish Film Board.
The serial, set in 1846 in County Donegal in the west of Ulster 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.