Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
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Craig Wasson
Michael Flaherty
Sterling Hayden
Seamus Flaherty
Patricia Quinn
Siobhan
Niall O'Brien
Emmett Donovan
T. P. McKenna
John Russell
Niall Tóibín
The Farmer
Frank Grimes
Tony Coyle
Elizabeth Begley
Mrs Cochran
Bosco Hogan
Finbar Donovan
Ray McAnally
MacWhirter
J.G. Devlin
Sean Tweeny
Joe Dowling
Pat
Aiden Grennell
Hanlan
Joe McPartland
Joe McDermott
Des Cave
Kevin McCann
