Jude Hill is a Northern Irish actor. He is known for his lead role in Kenneth Branagh's film Belfast (2021) based on Branagh's childhood, for which Hill won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Performer.
Jude Hill is a Northern Irish actor. He is best known for his leading role in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021), based on Branagh's childhood, for which he won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Actor. Hill made his feature film debut in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast.
Based on writer-director Kenneth Branagh's own life, “Belfast” is the story of a Protestant family driven out of Northern Ireland by the same Protestant Loyalist forces that were attempting to purge certain neighborhoods of Catholics in what became known as the Troubles.
Plot. The film chronicles the life of a working-class Ulster Protestant family from the perspective of their nine-year-old son Buddy during The Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Belfast Child features lyrics written by Jim Kerr, Simple Minds' vocalist. Kerr penned the song after watching news reports of the Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen (1989), in which 11 people were killed. Belfast Child opens with an ethereal melody drawn from an Irish folk song called She Moved Through the Fair.
Not exactly. It was heavily inspired by writer and director Kenneth Branagh's real life, but it isn't a straight up biopic. Buddy is a a fictionalised version of Branagh. The Troubles forced his Protestant, working-class family to leave Northern Ireland.
The whole conflict that led to partition reduces fundamentally to the failure of the Reformation in Ireland and the fact that it threw up a confessional divide between the British generally: between the English, the Welsh, the Scots—and the Irish, who remained largely Catholic.
Belfast sees Buddy's parents firmly deciding to leave their home behind for a better and safer life in England, away from the conflict affecting their daily lives. In many ways, Belfast is a love letter to Branagh's past and the way in which it shaped him.
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But when his body was eventually found — and his belongings were discovered in the possession of a career criminal — the community began to suspect foul play. TwitterNoah Donohoe with his mother, Fiona. Noah Donohoe, 14, lived with his mother, Fiona Donohoe, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In #BELFAST, Ciarán Hinds plays the grandfather we all wish we'd had. His character Pop presents a different side for the actor and has earned him his first Academy Award nomination.
The story of the boy who never came home touched people's hearts and the public came in droves to help search for Noah. His body was found six days later in a storm drain in north Belfast wearing few clothes and with none of his belongings. A postmortem determined he had drowned.
He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technical College and Queen's University Belfast. He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career, joining the renowned Abbey Theatre.
Alexander "Buck Alec" Robinson (c. 1901–1995) was a boxer, Ulster loyalist paramilitary and Ulster Special Constabulary reservist. Robinson gained notoriety in Northern Ireland for streetfighting, robbery and for owning a pet lion. His contemporaries included James "Stormy" Wetherall and Patrick "Silver" McKee.
Buddy's family were Protestants, who showed no animosity towards their Catholic neighbours, but labelled Catholicism as a religion of fear. However, Buddy's local minister is a maniacal hellfire and brimstone preacher, aiming to terrorise his congregation – while collecting their tithes.
The conflict began during a campaign by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association to end discrimination against the Catholic-nationalist minority by the Protestant-unionist government and local authorities. The government attempted to suppress the protests.
Realising they are no longer safe in Belfast, the family decides to leave for England. Pop passes away. Before departing, Buddy bids farewell to Catherine.
As you can see, west Belfast is mainly Catholic, in most areas over 90%. For many years, the Catholic population expanded to the southwest, but in recent years it has started expanding around the Shankill and into north Belfast. The east of the city is predominantly Protestant, typically 90% or more.
Several splinter groups have been formed as a result of splits within the IRA, including the Continuity IRA, which is still active in the dissident Irish republican campaign, and the Real IRA.
Despite the fact that Northern Ireland has become a hub for filmmaking in recent years, Belfast was mainly shot in England on specially constructed sets.
Pictured: Queen and Lambert rock Belfast with perfect tributes to Freddie Mercury. In their only Northern Ireland gig this year, Brian May and Roger Taylor were joined by the former American Idol star to raise the roof off the SSE Arena - and they did just that.
But The Beatles' love affair with Belfast didn't end there. On 2nd November 1964, they made a surprise return, thanks to the efforts of promoter Arthur Howes. Originally meant to be a rest day on their British tour, they took the stage at the King's Hall in Belfast, much to the delight of local fans.
