Kevin Barry gets the demons, the psyche and the turmoil of being Irish." "But that's very Irish to me, because there's something hilarious and dark about it at the same time, and it's a long way away from how we're viewed around the world as being the life and soul of the party and great craic all the time. "He, his father and his brother are all driven demented over their desires for Sarah, without ever sorting out their own stuff, you know, and figuring out who they are as men. "Martin ran a tanning shop for a while and that went tits up, and now he's running a chicken farm and that's not running too rosy either. "He's a mess alright," Moe tells me when we talk. Sarah narrates, and watches with pity and contempt as the three men hover helplessly around her. In a macabre flourish worthy of Shakespeare, family boss Daddy Mannion (Pat Shortt) is married to the much younger Sarah (Charlie Murphy), who was once the true love of Daddy's estranged son Doggy (Peter Coonan), and who also fascinates his younger, weaker son Martin, played by Dunford. Dromord sits by a lake that may or may not be cursed, and is dominated by the Mannion family, a moody brood whose portfolio of shops, pubs and undertakers ushers the locals seamlessly from cradle to grave. Ian Fitzgibbon's Dark Lies the Island is based on a story by Kevin Barry and set in a small Irish town containing no one especially happy.
He's a dab hand at villains, but in his latest film, Moe plays a man more sinned against than sinning.
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