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I am looking forward to seeing this film in the theater. Looks like a limited release in the United States right now.
https://www.black47film.com/showtimes#trailer

From the website:

It's 1847 and Ireland is in the grips of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and re-unite with his estranged family. He's seen more that his share of horrors but nothing prepares him for the famine's hopeless destruction of his homeland. He discovers his mother starved to death and his brother hanged by the brutal hand of the English. With little else to live for, he sets on a destructive path to avenge his family, systematically working his way up the political and social hierarchy of 19th Century Ireland. Hannah, an ageing British soldier and famed tracker of deserters, is sent to stop Feeney before he can further stoke the fires of revolution. But Hannah and Feeney are old army comrades with a mutual respect forged by their times fighting together. Personal bonds and shifting allegiances cause both men to question their motives, as they are tested to the limit by the hellish landscape of the Great Hunger.
 
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I would love to see that movie if and when it comes to my area. Both my late wife and I have ancestors who left Ireland about this time. While I do not have much information about them, I feel pretty sure that they left because of the famine portrayed in the movie Black 47.
 
Fyi, just checked and it's available to rent (30 days for 6.99) on Amazon Prime. Not available yet on Netflix. Watched the trailer.....looks pretty raw and intense, my kind of movie.
 
Just watched it on my Fire Stick/Kodi. In a word grim. Superbly acted although sometimes difficult to understand due to thick accents. There are some subtitles because they speak Irish. All said and done an excellent movie.

Very realistic use of firearms both flint and cap I thought.
 
I've read many books on The Famine but the best has to be The Graves are Walking by John Kelly. Grim, funny even, and leaves you infuriated and many other emotions.
 
I recently watched this and really enjoyed it. I especially liked the reality of them using flintlocks and the consequences of them misfiring!

Can anyone identify the pistols or longarms used in the film?

Does anyone have any sources for info on equipment used in that part of the world? Seems there is a lot about the Revolutionary period to the Fur Trade available.
 
Some look like Bakers, some Brunswick rifles. a Bess or two.
Look like cheap India made copies, but what do I know, just a guess.
They probably are copies for the film. However, Your reference to Bakers and Brunswick gives me something to dig into. Thank You!
 
Mostly British service rifles prior to 1854, I haven't seen the whole movie, but those are what I think I saw from the previews.
Many looked like Brunswick rifles.
 

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