The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy.

Starring:

Alan Devlin, Bairbre Dowling, Brendan Cauldwell, Colm Meaney, Declan Mulholland, Dervla Kirwan, Donncha Crowley, Eamonn Hunt, Frank Grimes, Frank Kelly, Frank O'Sullivan, Ger Ryan, Jack Lynch, Jim Bartley, John Olohan, Johnny Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Martin Dunne, Maureen Bennett, Maurice O'Donoghue, Pat Laffan, Stuart Dannell-Foran

Genre:

Drama, Family, Adventure