3 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland During The 1880s
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Captain Boycott
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1880sBased on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
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The Fox of Glenarvon
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1880sAn English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle. Anti-Britsh propaganda film.
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Parnell
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1890s The 1880sIrish politician Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
