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Troid Fhuilteach (A Bloody Canvas)

2008
57m
Biography
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Cast

Frankie McCafferty (Narrator)Macdara Ó Fátharta (Narrator)Shane O'Neill (Mike McTigue)Muhammed Alabede (Battling Siki)Tim Dillard (Paul Gallico)Liam McGonagle (Jack Smith)Ronnie Woods (Siki's Trainer)Stephen Boyl (Roddy Mc Donald)Keith Boyle (Paul Berlenbach)James Roche (Jack Sharkey)Mary Keane (Gertrude Gaffney)Nick McGinley (English Journalist)Sean McDonagh (Mike Mc Tigue)

Director

Andrew Gallimore

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Synopsis

Three unrelated events - a civil war, a black heavyweight champion without a challenger and a journeyman Irish fighter down on his luck - conspire to produce the most bizarre world championship fight in boxing history, on St. Patrick's Day 1923, in Dublin City.

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