A Great Hunger

Ireland’s Great Hunger engulfs the Black Valley and newly weds Mary Gleeson and Martin Kilmartin fight poverty, oppression and an indifferent nature to save themselves and their new born child. As their romance is overwhelmed by social and political turmoil, an even greater terror begins to stalk the nation in this stirring and challenging adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s classic novel, Famine (1937). 

  • Written by

    Kelly Campbell

    Michael McDonough

  • Directed by

    Peter Mackie Burns (Daphne, Rialto)

  • Produced by

    Paul Welsh

  • Co-producers

    Edge City Films

    Workhouse Pictures

  • Financed by

    Screen Scotland (Packaging)

    Irish Film Board (Packaging)

    SFTN (Development)

  • "Mary Kilmartin (the heroine) has been singled out by two generations of critics as one of the great creations of modern literature. And so she is." John Broderick, Irish Times

     

    Based on Liam O'Flaherty's "Famine" (Merlin Press)