Storm Front in Mayo

May 28, 2019

0h 53m

★ 7.5

Overview

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

New Decade TV and Film

ARTE GEIE

RTÉ

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Cast

Young Maureen Flavin Sweeney

Eva Sweeney

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Colin Wright

Captain James Stagg

Mike Johnson

Met Éireann Telephone Operator

John Downes

Self - Historian

Antony Beevor

Self - Historian

Robert Gerwarth

Self - Eisenhower's Granddaughter

Susan Eisenhower

Self - Historian

Joseph Skelly

Self - Retired US Army Lt. General

Richard G. Trefry

Self - Weather Observer (1944)

Maureen Flavin Sweeney

Self - Meteorologist

Gerald Fleming

Self - Journalist

David McCullagh

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