Writer 85 years old

Shane Connaughton

Redhills, Co. Cavan, Ireland

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Tara Road

Gillies MacKinnon 2005 1h 41m 5.0

Two women -- one American, one Irish -- swap houses and alter the course of their lives.

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Jim Sheridan 1989 1h 43m 7.6

In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life.

Shane Connaughton

Filmography

Tara Road

River Queen

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

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