The Old Warehouses in Ramelton, the main location for The Hanging Gale
Genre
Historical drama
Written by
Allan Cubitt
Directed by
Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring
Joe McGann Paul McGann Mark McGann Stephen McGann Michael Kitchen
Composer
Shaun Davey
Country of origin
United Kingdom–Ireland
Original language
English
No. of episodes
4
Production
Producer
Jonathan Cavendish
Production locations
Ramelton, County Donegal, Ulster
Cinematography
Rex Maidment
Editor
Don Fairservice
Running time
4 × 52 minutes
Production companies
Little Bird Films BBC Northern Ireland Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Original release
Network
RTÉ One
Release
2 May (1995-05-02) – 23 May 1995 (1995-05-23)
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The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One (Republic of Ireland) and BBC1 (United Kingdom) 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 (RTÉ), with support from the Irish Film Board.
The serial, set in 1846 in County Donegal in the west of Ulster 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.[1]
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.[2]
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^Philpin, Charles (2002). Nationalism and popular protest in Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521525012.
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