How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

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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.

Country:

Ireland

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

2016

Director:

Des Henderson

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Company:

Alleycats TV

Cast:
Liam Neeson

Narrator

Denis Mulcahy

Himself

Bill Clinton

Himself

Eamonn McCann

Himself

Pat Mulcahy

Crew:
Ed Stobart

Producer

Declan McCann

Editor

William Skidmore

Production Design

Aaron O'Neill

Recording Supervision

Des Henderson

Director