15 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland During The 19th Century
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Monster
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1840sIreland, 1845 on the eve of The Great Hunger. Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier in the Napoleonic wars arrives just ahead of 'the blight,' a disease that eventually wipes out the country's potato crop, contributing to the death and displacement of millions. As the crops rot in the fields, Colmán, his brother and Patsy travel to the English Landlord's house to request a stay on rent increases that Colmán predicts will destroy his community. His request falls deaf ears and Patsy's subsequent actions set Colmán on a path that will take him to the edge of survival, and sanity. It is only upon encountering an abandoned young girl that Colmán's resolve is lifted. Just in time for the darkness of his past to pay another visit.
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Black '47
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1840sIn Ireland’s darkest hour vengeance shines a light — In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.
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Byzantium
🇮🇪 Ireland The 2010s The 1800s The 1810s The 1820sIrresistible. Immoral. Immortal. — Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret—they were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequences.
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Albert Nobbs
🇮🇪 Ireland The 19th CenturyA man with a secret. A woman with a dream. — Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
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Far and Away
Massachusetts Oklahoma 🇮🇪 Ireland The 1890sWhat they needed was a country big enough for their dreams. — A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her and take her back.
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Untamed
🇮🇪 Ireland 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1850s The 1840sIt's AFRICOLOSSAL! in CINEMASCOPE — When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
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Captain Lightfoot
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1810sAn unforgettably beautiful love story — A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin.
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The Fighting O'Flynn
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1800s The 18th CenturyA swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
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Hungry Hill
🇮🇪 Ireland The 19th CenturyLife becomes a tragedy for the wife (Margaret Lockwood) of an Irish heir (Dennis Price) to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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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 Foxes of Harrow
Louisiana 🇮🇪 Ireland The 1820s The 1830sAn Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
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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.
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Ireland, a Nation
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1800s The 18th CenturyThe story of Ireland and her fight for Home Rule, as seen through the experiences of Father Tom Murphy, a patriot with a price on his head, and the famous Irish leader Robert Emmet.
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Araby
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1890sBased on the story "Araby" in the collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce.
