The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)

Directors

Michael O'Herlihy

Cast

Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Maurice Roëves, Norman Wooland, Richard Leech, Marie Kean, Peggy Marshall

The story

Set in the late 1580s, the film very loosely follows the real-life exploits of the 16th-century Irish prince Hugh Roe "Red Hugh" O'Donnell. The story begins when Hugh's father, the Chief of the Name, dies, leaving his son as Chief of Clan O'Donnell. With his accession to the throne, an Irish prophecy is seemingly fulfilled which promises independence from Elizabethan and English rule.

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