How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

90 mins | Documentary | Sept. 25, 2016

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.

How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

90 mins | Documentary | Sept. 25, 2016

How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Alleycats TV
Original title How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
Directors Des Henderson
Writers

Cast

Liam Neeson

as Narrator

Denis Mulcahy

as Himself

Bill Clinton

as Himself

Eamonn McCann

as Himself

Pat Mulcahy

as / Himself

Duke Hoffman

as / Himself

Carol Hoffman

as / Herself

Monica Culburt

as / Herself

Nancy Stanfield

as / Herself

Jim Stanfield

as / Himself

Peter Stanfield

as / Himself

Carol Wheeler

as / Herself

Kitty Higgins

as / Herself

Mary Anne Sullivan

as / Herself

Rep Jim Walsh

as / Himself

Martin McGuinness

as Himself