The Hanging Gale (1995): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1995, The Hanging Gale is a drama series.

What it’s about. The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One and BBC1 in 1995. The series was a British–Irish co-production, made by Little Bird Films for BBC Northern Ireland in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann, with support from the Irish Film Board. The serial, set in 1846 at the beginning of Ireland's Great Famine, starred the four McGann brothers: Joe McGann, Paul McGann, Mark McGann and Stephen McGann, and was based on an original idea by Joe and Stephen McGann while researching their family's history. The title of the series comes from the term 'hanging gale', the name for a widespread practice in Ireland at the time, where a landlord would allow new tenants a six-month grace period on payment of their rent, with the expectation that the rent owed would be paid when the land's crops were harvested and sold.

Who’s in it. The Hanging Gale stars Joe McGann as Sean Phelan, Mark McGann as Conor Phelan, Paul McGann as Liam Phelan and Stephen McGann as Daniel Phelan, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 5.8/10, The Hanging Gale has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can rent or buy it from Amazon Video. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch The Hanging Gale page.

If you liked it. Fans of The Hanging Gale tend to enjoy Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Attack on Titan.