::: CREDITS :::
Written by Jimmy McAleavey & Brendan J. Byrne
Directed by Brendan J. Byrne
Produced by Marilyn Hyndman

::: TRANSMISSION DETAILS :::
Saoirse was a Community Visions Production made possible through Northern Visions. It was produced in 1998 and is available on VHS. More details may be obtained from Northern Visions at www.northernvisions.org
Running time: 25 minutes

::: SYNOPSIS :::
This 30-minute drama explored the dilemma of a female republican prisoner whose daughter is about to go into care. A metaphor for the peace process and its sacrifices, the film is an ironic twist on the Booby Sands line 'our revenge will be the laughter of our children'.
The original concept for the film Saoirse, the Ardoyne Film Project, was developed from a series of script workshops with local people. During the making of the film, local primary schoolgirl, Joanna Farnan, made her debut playing the starring role opposite Cathy White, playing the part of her mother and Ardoyne residents came out in force to line the streets in an ambitious recreation of the day of the IRA ceasefire.

The Ardoyne Film Project gave participants from the local community the opportunity to be creatively involved in the filmmaking process from conception to completion.

It is also Brendan Byrne's second film about his home community of Ardoyne. A more critical look this time, it explores how the ideology of political freedom can also mentally imprison its exponents.
 
   
 
   
 
   
TV & FILM PRODUCTIONS
Sons of Ulster | Ballybrando |Loughshore| Blind Vision
 The 18th Electricity Plan | Tale of Two Cities | Hear My Prayer | Secret Life of Words
Jump | Happiness | Ballyferrus |Poor Banished Children Of Eve
The Visitors | MotorMouth | Century Farm | Street Detectives | Front Line
You Thought You Knew...The Plantation | Seven Days That Shook United | Lines of Fire
How Far Home | The Uncle Jack | The Kickhams | Saoirse | Heroes | Crossing | Puddy Cat
 
   

 
       
   
E-mail | brendan@hotshotfilms.com