Storm Front in Mayo

Storm Front in Mayo

53 mins | Documentary, War, History | May 28, 2019

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

Storm Front in Mayo

53 mins | Documentary, War, History | May 28, 2019

Storm Front in Mayo
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.
Producers RTÉ, ARTE GEIE, New Decade TV and Film
Original title Storm Front in Mayo
Directors Gerry Gregg
Writers Gerry Gregg

Cast

Eva Sweeney

as Young Maureen Flavin Sweeney

Colin Wright

as General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mike Johnson

as Captain James Stagg

John Downes

as Met Éireann Telephone Operator

Antony Beevor

as Himself - Historian

Robert Gerwarth

as Himself - Historian

Susan Eisenhower

as Herself - Eisenhower's Granddaughter

Joseph Skelly

as Himself - Historian

Richard G. Trefry

as Himself - Retired US Army Lieutenant General

Maureen Flavin Sweeney

as Herself - Weather Observer (1944)

Gerald Fleming

as Himself - Meteorologist

David McCullagh

as Himself - Journalist

Catherine Ross

as Herself - British Met Office Archivist

Jeremy Green

as Himself - British Military Police Colonel

Rodney Teck

as Himself - Climate Researcher

John C. Sweeney

as Himself - Climate Researcher

Vincent Sweeney

as Himself - Lighthouse Keeper

Richard Callaghan

as Himself - Royal MP Museum Curator

Joe Cattini

as Himself - D-Day Veteran

Adolf Hitler

as Himself (archive footage)

Bernard Montgomery

as Himself (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Himself (archive footage)

Éamon de Valera

as Himself (archive footage)

Erwin Rommel

as Himself (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

as Himself (archive footage)

James Stagg

as Himself (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

as Himself (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

as Himself (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

as Himself (archive footage)