On their first visit to their ancestral home in rural Ireland, two sisters from Chicago are forced to confront their own past by discoveries which also have life-changing consequences in the present day.
Type:
Feature
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
63pp
Genre:
Biography, Family, History, Romance
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details
When Irish American Sisters,Shanon and Caitlin Donovan return to their ancestral homeland of Ireland following the passing of their mother, they encounter a local history teacher able to inform them of their ancestory in the form of a recently widowed Mother, Ava Kelly and her connection with Father Nicholas Sheehy, a local Catholic priest in the late 17th century. With the indigenous Irish Catholic denizens living under the oppressive thumbs of colonialist Protestant landlords, Sheehy and Kelly want to change Ireland's history and Free it from Oppression,overcoming an unjust system. What will it cost for Sheehy to overcome the injustice?

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The Writer: Henry D Gambles

Having graduated with MA in Film and Screen Production (Scriptwriting), I have acquired significant experience and a successful track record in theatre, commercial and in-house scriptwriting and production, both as part of a scriptwriting team and working individually. “Stories are a communal currency of humanity” - Tahir Shah, Arabian Nights. A long dead German philosopher theorised that people are both products and producers of their own environments. Psychologists might trace my fixation with the power of narrative to my own environment – to the oral traditions of my Irish, French, Welsh and Yorkshire lineage, further attributing my love of sagas to my vestigial Viking ancestry. With my… Go to bio
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