Penance (Irish: Aithrí) is a 2018 historical drama film directed by Tom Collins and set in Ulster during 1916 and 1969.
[1] It stars Peter Coonan as an Irish nationalist Catholic priest who recruits a boy to the cause, only to regret his actions decades later.
[2][3][4] Penance was filmed in Ramelton, County Donegal and Derry, Northern Ireland and is primarily in the Irish language.
[5] It was based on the Pádraic Ó Conaire story "Seacht mBua an Éirí Amach" ("Seven Virtues of the [Easter] Rising").
Eoin casts his mind back to rural County Donegal in 1916, when he recruited a teenage Antaine into the Irish independence movement.