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Ascendancy

Period & History • Drama, UR

Set in Ireland in 1920, Ascendancy is a powerful meditation on English guilt over the tormented history of Northern Ireland. Connie (Julie Covington) is an English aristocrat driven to despair over the horrors of war, including both the residual effects of the Great War and a new wave of violence emerging on the streets of Ulster.

Tags
1920s, Sectarianism, Irish War of Independence (1919-1921)
Cast
Julie Covington Connie Wintour
Ian Charleson Lieutenant Ryder
John Phillips Wintour
Crew
Edward Bennett director

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