Birdy Sweeney

Birdy Sweeney

Birdy Sweeney was an Irish actor best remembered for his regular role in TV drama Ballykissangel. His name came from his uncanny ability to mimic birdsong.

  • Title: Birdy Sweeney
  • Popularity: 5.234
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-06-14
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Birdy Sweeney Movies

  • 1992
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    The Crying Game

    The Crying Game

    6.8 1992 HD

    Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Stephen Rea

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  • 1998
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    The Nephew

    The Nephew

    5.8 1998 HD

    Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth....

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    Cast: Niall Tóibín

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  • 2011
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    The Poorhouse Revisited

    The Poorhouse Revisited

    1 2011 HD

    In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, an elderly gravedigger revisits a traumatic event through the decaying visions of his fragmented dreams.

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Derbhle Crotty

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  • 1991
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    Journey to Knock

    Journey to Knock

    1 1991 HD

    Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: John Hurt

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  • 1997
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    Downtime

    Downtime

    5 1997 HD

    Former police psychologist Rob helps to save young Chrissy when she is about to commit suicide by jumping of 21st-story balcony with her 4-year-old...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Paul McGann

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  • 1993
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    The Snapper

    The Snapper

    6.358 1993 HD

    Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Colm Meaney

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  • 1984
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    A Woman Calling

    A Woman Calling

    1 1984 HD

    Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.

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    Cast: Catherine Brennan

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  • 1988
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    Reefer and the Model

    Reefer and the Model

    5.2 1988 HD

    Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ian McElhinney

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  • 1999
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    Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes

    7.217 1999 HD

    Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Emily Watson

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  • 1998
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    The Butcher Boy

    The Butcher Boy

    6.79 1998 HD

    Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Eamonn Owens

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  • 1984
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    The Cry

    The Cry

    1 1984 HD

    Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Adrian Dunbar

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  • 1987
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    Naming the Names

    Naming the Names

    1 1987 HD

    Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Sylvestra Le Touzel

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  • 1996
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    Space Truckers

    Space Truckers

    5.433 1996 HD

    John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dennis Hopper

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  • 1998
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    Divorcing Jack

    Divorcing Jack

    6 1998 HD

    He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Thewlis

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  • 1988
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    The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

    The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

    1 1988 HD

    The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Angharad Rees

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  • 1991
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    Arise and Go Now

    Arise and Go Now

    1 1991 HD

    Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and Father...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Kavanagh

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  • 2001
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    Ballykissangel

    Ballykissangel

    6.875 2001 HD

    Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Niall Tóibín

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  • 1998
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    Father Ted

    Father Ted

    8.099 1998 HD

    A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dermot Morgan

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  • 2010
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.771 2010 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Simon Rouse

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  • 1996
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    Safe And Sound

    Safe And Sound

    1 1996 HD

    Belfast-set comedy series about best mates and colleagues, Catholic Tommy and protestant Dougy, who own and run the Safe And Sound garage

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Des McAleer

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  • 1995
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    The Hanging Gale

    The Hanging Gale

    4.3 1995 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joe McGann

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