Under the Hawthorn Tree

Name: Under the Hawthorn Tree
Director: Bronagh Murphy
Released: 1998-03-01
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Liane Murphy, Chris Bollard, Doireann Lawlor, Oisin Bourke, Aine Brennan

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Under the Hawthorn Tree

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Released

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Young Irish Filmmakers

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1998-03-01

Under the Hawthorn Tree

Ireland, 1845, and the potato crop has failed, bringing terrible hunger and plague. Everywhere people are dying or emigrating. The family of young Eily, Michael and Peggy, around whom this story revolves, does not escape. Their baby sister dies and is buried under a hawthorn tree. Their mother leaves them alone to go in search of their father. The children are determined to avoid certain death in the workhouse, where the poor are sent. So they set off on the dangerous journey across Ireland to find their great-aunts, Nano and Lena, whom they have only heard about in their mother’s stories.