How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

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How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story (2016)

Directed by Des Henderson

Documentary · 1h 30m

The extraordinary untold story of how an NYPD bomb disposal expert played a key role in helping defuse the decades old "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. In 1975, Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad – gathered a group of family, friends and neighbours to start a scheme offering children from Northern Ireland a chance to temporarily escape the violent turmoil of their daily lives. From modest beginnings, Project Children ultimately brought over 20,000 Catholic and Protestant children to suburban US for summer-long visits where they forged unexpected friendships and found they had more in common with the 'enemy' than they thought. Now this extraordinary untold story is being brought to the screen in a new documentary by Des Henderson, and narrated by Liam Neeson, entitled How To Defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story.

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Cast

Liam Neeson Narrator (voice)
D
Denis Mulcahy Self Bill Clinton Self
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Eamonn McCann Self
P
Pat Mulcahy Self
D
Duke Hoffman Self
C
Carol Hoffman Self
M
Monica Culburt Self
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Nancy Stanfield Self
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Jim Stanfield Self
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Peter Stanfield Self
C
Carol Wheeler Self

Crew

Director
Des Henderson
Editor
Declan McCann
Producer
Ed Stobart

Details

Release date
2016-09-25
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
Ireland
Production
Alleycats TV