Posing as a charismatic Catholic priest, a fugitive murderer in 1847 Ireland risks the English occupiers’ gallows by breaking the law to save his eccentric rural parish from starvation. The Irish counterpart to Roots.

SYNOPSIS:

PITCH: The Rogue of Connemara is a T.V. serial saga—think Roots—that explores the period of the mid-19th century Irish potato famine and the resultant mass Irish emigration to an uncertain life in America—the consequence of cruel, racist policies perpetrated by the anti-papist English parliament and Protestant landowners. In a heroic tale of love and hate, vengeance and redemption, we follow the trials and tribulations of a renaissance man wanted for murder as he outwits the English enemy by posing as as a charismatic rural Catholic priest in a small village in western Ireland, eventually becoming a beloved savior to his starving parish. Later, he is caught, but escapes his own execution and finally breaks free of Ireland and begins a multi-season odyssey to find his lost lover—who left Ireland thinking he’s dead—and himself in an anti-papist, anti-Irish America. The past is prologue.

THE ROGUE OF CONNEMARA