Paddies’ pain: the film that captures lonely lives of men who built Britain

It is a bleak, emotionally intense and absorbing film, with superb performances from Colm Meaney, Brendan Conroy and Donal O’Kelly.

The use of Irish adds to the film’s impact by underlining their sense of attachment to their roots, but also their isolation in London

THE powerful new film, Kings, directed by Tom Collins and adapted from Jimmy Murphy’s play, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, should help to begin a debate about the legacy of emigration from Ireland, while also giving food for thought about the situation of those who have come to Ireland in the past decade and how they will cope with the challenges of integration and displacement.