Birdy Sweeney

Birdy Sweeney

Born: June 14, 1931
Died: May 11, 1999
Birdy Sweeney was an Irish actor best remembered for his regular role in TV drama Ballykissangel. His name came from his uncanny ability to mimic birdsong.

Movies for Birdy Sweeney...

The Poorhouse Revisited
Title: The Poorhouse Revisited
Released: August 1, 2011
Type: Movie
In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, an elderly gravedigger revisits a traumatic event through the decaying visions of his fragmented dreams.
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Angela's Ashes
Title: Angela's Ashes
Character: Old Priest
Released: December 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
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Divorcing Jack
Title: Divorcing Jack
Character: Lift Attendant
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun
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The Nephew
Title: The Nephew
Character: Old Codger
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. Soon, Chad falls for Aislin, who has a bit of a crush on him too. But there is an old conflict going on between her father and Chad's uncle. This conflict resurfaces and begins to draw circles, wider and wider.
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The Butcher Boy
Title: The Butcher Boy
Character: Man in Well
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
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Downtime
Title: Downtime
Character: Pat
Released: October 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Former police psychologist Rob helps to save young Chrissy when she is about to commit suicide by jumping of 21st-story balcony with her 4-year-old son Jake. When he persuades her to go on a date, they are trapped with Jake in an elevator after a drunken gang crashes into the elevator's engine room and creates havoc.
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Title: Safe And Sound
Character: Eammon
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: TV
Belfast-set comedy series about best mates and colleagues, Catholic Tommy and protestant Dougy, who own and run the Safe And Sound garage
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Space Truckers
Title: Space Truckers
Character: Mr Zesty
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.
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Title: Ballykissangel
Character: Eamon Byrne
Released: February 11, 1996
Type: TV
Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001.
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Title: Father Ted
Character: Father Cullen
Released: April 21, 1995
Type: TV
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
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The Snapper
Title: The Snapper
Character: Loner
Released: August 6, 1993
Type: Movie
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
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The Crying Game
Title: The Crying Game
Character: Tommy
Released: September 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.
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Journey to Knock
Title: Journey to Knock
Character: Stan
Released: September 17, 1991
Type: Movie
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
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Arise and Go Now
Title: Arise and Go Now
Character: Dade's Father
Released: September 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and Father Dade, the local priest, try to drive some sanity into their world
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Reefer and the Model
Title: Reefer and the Model
Character: Instant Photo
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. They head to the trawler where he lives with friends Spider and Badger, that operates between Galway and the Aran Islands. The makeshift family are forced to turn to crime to make a living.
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The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
Title: The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
Character: Caretaker
Released: April 3, 1988
Type: Movie
The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London ...
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Naming the Names
Title: Naming the Names
Character: Man at Divis
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: Movie
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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The Cry
Title: The Cry
Character: Mr. Ferguson
Released: July 31, 1984
Type: Movie
Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indifference. Or is it fear?
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A Woman Calling
Title: A Woman Calling
Character: Man in Shop
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.