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Trial of the Century - Season 1

A fictional courtroom drama which shows how the trial of Pádraig Pearse, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, might have gone.

Top Cast

  • Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

    Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

    Padraig Pearse

  • Andrew Bennett

    Andrew Bennett

    Sebastian Banks

  • Frankie McCafferty

    Frankie McCafferty

    Father Aloysius Travers

  • David Heap

    David Heap

    Judge Bonham

  • Eamonn Hunt

    Eamonn Hunt

    General Maxwell

  • Mark Huberman

    Mark Huberman

    George Gavan Duffy

  • Keith McErlean

    Keith McErlean

    James Connolly

  • John Cronin

    John Cronin

    Joseph Mary Plunkett

  • Jane Brennan

    Jane Brennan

    Margaret Pearse

Overview

A fictional courtroom drama which shows how the trial of Pádraig Pearse, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, might have gone.

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