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Arracht

Feature Completed

YEAR: 2020

DIRECTOR: Tom Sullivan

WRITER: Tom Sullivan

PRODUCTION COMPANY: Macalla Teoranta

PRODUCER: Cúán Mac Conghail

CAST: Dónall Ó Healaí Michael McElhatton Siobhán O’Kelly Dara Devaney Peter Coonan Seán T. Ó Meallaigh Michelle Beamish

LOCATION: Connemara, Co. Galway

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Synopsis

Set in Ireland in 1845, Arracht centres on Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, who takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irish people.

Funding Information

Screen Ireland: €300,000 in Q1 2018

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