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Penance
Penance
	DVD cover
Directed by	Tom Collins
Screenplay by	Tom Collins; Greg O'Braonain
Based on	"Seacht mBua an Éirí Amach"; by Pádraic Ó Conaire
Produced by	Tom Collins; Edwina Forkin
Starring	Peter Coonan; Gerard McSorley; Barry McGovern;
Cinematography	Ciarán Tanham
Edited by	Dermot Diskin
Music by	Pól Brennan
Production; companies	De Facto Films; Zanzibar Films
Distributed by	Starline Entertainment
Release date	1 May 2018;
Running time	84 minutes
Countries	Republic of Ireland; Northern Ireland
Languages	Irish; English

Penance (Irish: Aithrí) is a 2018 Irish historical drama film directed by Tom Collins and set in Ulster during 1916 and 1969.^[1] It stars Peter Coonan as an Irish nationalist Catholic priest who recruits a boy to the cause, only to regret his actions decades later.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Production

Penance was filmed in Ramelton, County Donegal and Derry, Northern Ireland and is primarily in the Irish language. Filming in Derry took place at St Columba's Church, Long Tower, on Bishop Street and Society Street, as those areas had changed little since the 1960s.^[5]

It was based on the Pádraic Ó Conaire story "Seacht mBua an Éirí Amach" ("Seven Virtues of the [Easter] Rising").

Production was financed by TG4, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, the Irish Film Board (€150,000), the Irish Language Broadcast Fund, Northern Ireland Screen and Section 481.^[6]^[7]

Plot

Derry, 1969. Catholic priest Fr. Eoin McDonnell prevents the arrest of Antaine, a senior Irish Republican Army commandant. Fr. Eoin casts his mind back to rural County Donegal in 1916, when he recruited a teenage Antaine into the Irish independence movement.^[8]