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IRFF26 Hush-A-Bye Baby

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A coming-of-age film set in Derry against the backdrop of The Troubles and an all-powerful Catholic Church. Impressionable Irish teen Goretti Friel begins a romance with an older boy, Ciarán. In love but naïve about such practical concerns as birth control, the devoutly Roman Catholic Goretti ends up with an unwanted pregnancy. When Ciarán is jailed by the British army and shows little desire from prison to uphold his parental responsibilities, the pressures of unanticipated motherhood begin to unravel the 15-year-old teen's emotional stability. Features the acting debut of a very youthful Sinéad O’Connor, who also wrote the music. The print of HUSH-A-BYE BABY was restored by the Irish Film Institute in 2025 for a retrospective of Margo Harkin’s work.

Listed by Palace Cinemas Brisbane

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