Summary
A Caravaggio chiaroscuro of emerald hills and blood-orange sunsets, My Wild Irish Rose transplants Dion Boucicault’s 1874 stage firecracker into a fever-dream of colonial cruelty: Robert Ffolliat, the disinherited dreamer whose name feels like a sigh, is hurled from the mist-soft glens of Connemara to the shark-riven hull of a prison hulk bound for Botany Bay, all because Kinchella—a squire with a mouth like a purse-string—covets the last acre of wild gorse. Enter Conn the Shaughraun, a puckish shape-shifter equal parts whiskey vapour and foxfire, who ghosts aboard the convict ship, sprinkles salt on the irons, and spirits Robert home through a squall that tastes of peat and gunpowder. What follows is not a tidy reunion but a ceilidh of disguises, midnight harp-songs, and a final duel on the Cliffs of Moher where the Atlantic itself seems to referee the score between landlord and land, love and theft.
Synopsis
Based on the play 'The Shaughraun', this is the story of Robert Ffolliat, a young Irish lad, who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella. Conn the Shaughraun comes to his rescue, helps him to escape from the prison ship and return to Ireland where he is united with his sweetheart.
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