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: 1.91
  • 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...

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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...

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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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  • 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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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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  • 1993
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    The Snapper

    The Snapper

    6.4 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...

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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...

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  • 1999
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    Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes

    7.278 1999 HD

    An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty,...

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  • 1998
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    The Butcher Boy

    The Butcher Boy

    6.8 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,...

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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...

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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...

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  • 1996
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    Space Truckers

    Space Truckers

    5.424 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...

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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...

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  • 1995
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    Father Ted

    Father Ted

    8.112 1995 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.6 1984 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...

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  • 1996
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    Ballykissangel

    Ballykissangel

    6.9 1996 HD

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

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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

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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...

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