Cal

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

John Lynch

Cal

Helen Mirren

Marcella

Donal McCann

Shamie

Ray McAnally

Cyril Dunlop

John Kavanagh

Skeffington

Stevan Rimkus

Crilly

Catherine Gibson

Mrs Morton

Louis Rolston

Dermot Ryan

Tom Hickey

Preacher

Gerard Mannix Flynn

Arty

Seamus Forde

Mr Morton

Edward Byrne

Skeffington Snr

J.J. Murphy

Man in Library

Audrey Johnson

Lucy

Brian Munn

Robert Morton

Daragh O'Malley

Scarfaced Policeman

George Shane

Second Policeman

Julia Dearden

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