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Say Nothing’s Revolution Will Be Television
The first look at FX’s latest adaptation introduces the young revolutionaries who become key Provisional IRA fighters during the Troubles.
Adapted by Josh Zetumer from Patrick Radden Keefe’s acclaimed 2018 nonfiction book of the same name, the series grapples with the legacy of the Troubles from the 1960s to today via parallel viewpoints: a group of young revolutionaries who would become key fighters in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the ten children of a woman abducted by the IRA over suspicion of being an informant. The cast of predominantly Irish actors, many of whom are from Northern Ireland, includes Lola Petticrew and Hazel Doupe as Dolours and Marian Price, sisters who played vital roles in the Old Bailey bombing in London — the IRA’s first major attack in England during the Troubles — and whose hunger strike in prison became a defining episode in the conflict. Anthony Boyle, who’s having a breakout year with Masters of the Air and Manhunt, plays Brendan Hughes, a notable leader of the Provisional IRA, while Baby Reindeer ’s Josh Finan stars as a young Gerry Adams.
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