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Drama, Musical, Romance, War. 1931 United Kingdom Madame Guillotine: Reginald Fogwell: History, Romance. 1931 Weimar Republic Danton: Hans Behrendt: Drama. Georges Danton: 1932 France Danton: André Roubaud: History. Based on the play The Danton Case. Georges Danton: 1933 France The Two Orphans: Les deux orphelines: Maurice Tourneur: Drama ...
Irish War of Independence: 2006 Ireland United Kingdom Germany Italy Spain France Switzerland The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Ken Loach: Drama, War. Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War. 2014 Ireland A Nightingale Falling: Garret Daly Martina McGlynn Drama, History, War. Based on a novel A Nightingale Falling. Irish War of Independence ...
Sinn Féin candidates ran unopposed in Cavan. Fermanagh and Tyrone had Sinn Féin/Nationalist Party (Irish Parliamentary Party) majorities. The other four Counties of Ulster had Unionist Party majorities. [13] The home rule crisis and the subsequent Irish War of Independence led to the partition of Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
Widely praised, the film won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. [5] Loach's biggest box office success to date, [ 6 ] the film did well around the world and set a record in Ireland as the highest-grossing Irish-made independent film , until surpassed by The Guard .
The area's unusual border was ascribed in the 1920s to "some long forgotten feud between petty kings". [3] Drummully ED lies in the province of Ulster near the tripoint of three counties, Monaghan, Fermanagh, and Cavan, which were created in the 1580s from three medieval Gaelic lordships: respectively Airgíalla (McMahon's country), Fear Manach (Maguire's country) and East Breifne (O'Reilly's ...
March or Die is a 1977 British war drama film directed by Dick Richards and starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow, and Sir Ian Holm.. The film celebrates the 1920s French Foreign Legion, whose Major Foster (Hackman), a war-weary American haunted by his memories of the recently ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at a dig site in ...
The Irish War of Independence: The Definitive Account of the Anglo Irish War of 1919-1921. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 0-7171-6197-8. McKenna, Joseph (2011). Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-8519-2.
Eoin O'Duffy (born Owen Duffy; 28 January 1890 – 30 November 1944) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, police commissioner and politician.O'Duffy was the leader of the Monaghan Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a prominent figure in the Ulster IRA during the Irish War of Independence.