Barry Barnes

Barry Barnes

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God's Creatures
Title: God's Creatures
Character: Patrolman Daragh West
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
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Title: The Dry
Character: Simon
Released: May 5, 2022
Type: TV
In the series, when Shiv Sheridan returns to Dublin after years of partying in London, she is sober and full of good intentions – but being back with her family makes staying on ‘the dry' much harder than she expected. As Shiv tries to navigate this new phase of her life, so must her family and they all have issues they don't want to face.
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Penance
Title: Penance
Character: Inspector Joyce
Released: May 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Unequivocal about the need for violence to force Britain out of Ireland, Father Eoin O’Donnell seals the fate of the young and impressionable Antaine by convincing him to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later, the reappearance of the now-experienced gunman Antaine in a divided Derry throws Father O’Donnell into turmoil. Once allies, the pair are now placed on opposite sides of the same agenda.
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The Bookshop
Title: The Bookshop
Character: Inspector Sheppard
Released: November 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
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Title: Rebellion
Character: Constable James O'Brien
Released: January 3, 2016
Type: TV
A group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence during the Easter Rising. The story begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, social stability is eroded and Irish nationalism comes to the fore. The tumultuous events that follow are seen through the eyes of a group of friends from Dublin, Belfast and London as they play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland's independence.
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'71
Title: '71
Character: Jake Fullarton
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
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Title: Titanic: Blood and Steel
Character: Father Thomas
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: TV
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
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Shadow Dancer
Title: Shadow Dancer
Character: Gerry Senior
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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The Daisy Chain
Title: The Daisy Chain
Character: Sergeant Riley
Released: November 9, 2008
Type: Movie
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
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Kings
Title: Kings
Character: Máirtín
Released: September 21, 2007
Type: Movie
In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life. For some the thirty years has been hard, working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever.
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Title: Aifric
Character: Tom
Released: November 2, 2006
Type: TV
Aifric is an Irish-language TV series aimed at young teenagers, directed by Paul Mercier. The first of the weekly thirteen-part series began broadcasting on 31 October 2006, the date of TG4's tenth anniversary. The series follows the life of Aifric whose wacky family have just moved to a new town in the West of Ireland. The 14yr old wants nothing more than to fit in but feels her family will not make it easy for her. Her mother is a new-age hippy who has banned television, while her father is a wannabe rock star, not to mention her annoying little brother. As well as on TG4, Aifric is also shown on BBC Alba, where it is dubbed in Scottish Gaelic.
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Veronica Guerin
Title: Veronica Guerin
Character: Graham Turley
Released: July 11, 2003
Type: Movie
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
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Reign of Fire
Title: Reign of Fire
Character: Construction Worker #3
Released: July 9, 2002
Type: Movie
In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit -- leading a clan of survivors to hunt down the King of the Dragons -- has much at stake: His mother was killed by a dragon, but his love is still alive.
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Title: No Tears
Character: Sean Fogarty
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: TV
Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.
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The Bombmaker
Title: The Bombmaker
Character: Padraig
Released: April 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Expert IRA bomb-maker turned police informant Andrea Hayes retires and starts a new life after four school-children are killed by one of her bombs. Ten years later, her blissful home life shattered when her daughter, Katie, is abducted from her bedroom in the dead of night. Andrea later discovers a ransom note, instructing her to leave her husband Martin and fly to London by herself. It also states that if the police are contacted, she and Martin will never see Katie again. In the hope of being reunited with Katie, Andrea obeys orders and follows instructions to meet with the kidnappers. Back in Dublin, Martin is powerless to help and becomes frantic with worry when he learns from Andrea that no ransom demand has been made, and that the kidnappers' request is something much more dangerous.
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Title: Rebel Heart
Character: Eamonn Ceannt
Released: January 7, 2001
Type: TV
The move towards independence in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising until the 1922 civil war is seen through the eyes of a naive idealistic young man
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Title: Ordinary Decent Criminal
Character: Larry
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
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Vicious Circle
Title: Vicious Circle
Character: Phil
Released: February 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
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Title: Painted Lady
Character: D.S. Fagan
Released: December 7, 1997
Type: TV
Painted Lady was a 1997 murder mystery mini series starring Helen Mirren, involving art theft. It costarred Franco Nero and Iain Glen, and was directed by Julian Jarrold. The role was created specifically for Mirren, as a means for her to try something a bit different from her Inspector Tennison character on the popular Prime Suspect series. The series was a collaborative effort of Granada Television and PBS. It was broadcast in the US PBS's Masterpiece Theatre in December 1997.
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Michael Collins
Title: Michael Collins
Character: Free State Soldier
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.