Cork actor Michael Patric on Cailín Ciúin, and his new role as Seán Moylan

The Newmarket actor tells Esther McCarthy about his Hollywood trip with the Oscar-nominated film, and his stage show on the War of Independence hero 

Michael Patric as Seán Moylan at Cork Arts Theatre. 

He shone in a memorable performance in An Cailín Ciúin, the little Irish movie that made it all the way to the Oscars. Now actor Michael Patric is bringing us a very different role - that of real-life revolutionary Seán Moylan - in a new one-man show.

The Newmarket actor is telling the extraordinary story of Moylan, a senior officer of the Irish Republican Army who headed the Newmarket division following the Easter Rising, before taking part in both the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. He would later become a prominent Fianna Fáil politician.