The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One and BBC1 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, with support from the Irish Film Board. The serial, set in 1846 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.
as Sean Phelan
as Conor Phelan
as Liam Phelan
as Daniel Phelan
as Capt. William Townsend
as Maeve Phelan
as Mary Dolan
as Ferry
as Coulter
as James Phelan
as Joseph Phelan
as Molly Phelan
as Michael Dolan
as Patrick Dolan
as Sarah Dolan
as McBride
as McCafferty
as Doctor Davis
as Meagher
as Harkin
as Brady
as Mr Denny
as Mrs Denny
as Henry Jenkins
as Shanahan
as Constable Coyle
as Sergeant Major
as Brewster
as Kerryman
as Brian Sweeney
as Martin
as Baby Hannah
