In the village of Clonmore, volunteers wage war for Irish independence following the Easter Rebellion. Yet there are spies in their midst.
This was released in Ireland ten years after the Rebellion. It played in Great Britain as AN IRISH MOTHER -- who knows how it got past the censors? It's a fairly straightforward story of Paddy Dunne Cullinan, as a member of the IRA, Frances Macnamarra, his fiancee, and Brian Magowan, the spy for the Black & Tans, and poteen distiller. He also fancies Frances, which sets up a lot of the melodramatic conflict.
There's a good deal of footage from the scenes of the Rebellion in Dublin, contemporary with the actual events. Long feared lost, a copy was found in the Library of Congress and restored, including some Handschlegel effects for fire.
It's a decent if unremarkable movie, more interesting as a document of Irish sentiment of the era than as a movie in itself. Nonetheless, it is carefully made a great number of beauty shots of the Irish countryside.
