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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
is a 2006
war
drama film
directed by
Ken Loach
, set during the
Irish War of Independence
(1919–1922) and the
Irish Civil War
(1922–1923). Written by long-time Loach collaborator
Paul Laverty
, this drama tells the fictional story of two
County Cork
brothers, Damien O'Donovan (
Cillian Murphy
) and Teddy O'Donovan (
Pádraic Delaney
), who join the
Irish Republican Army
to fight for Irish independence from the
United Kingdom
. It takes its title from the
Robert Dwyer Joyce
song "
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
" a song set during the 1798 rebellion in Ireland and featured early in the film. The film is heavily influenced by
Walter Macken
's 1964 novel
The Scorching Wind
.
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