The film is inspired by Nell McCafferty's The Armagh Women and based on the play/screenplay Now and at the Hour of Our Death that Murphy co-wrote with theatre company Trouble and Strife.

Silent Grace stars Orla Brady, Cathleen Bradley, with Cara Seymour, Dawn Bradfield, Carol Scanlan, Conor Mullen, and Patrick Bergin.

It then was selected for the Taormina, Moscow, Foyle, Dinard and Hamptons International Film Festival USA (nominated for the Conflict and Resolution Award).

Silent Grace experienced a revival and wider audience in 2017 after three major articles in the Irish Times Culture section about the women and the film that had been written out of history.

In a remarkable turn around of events when Eileen embarks on a hunger strike, Aine risks all to help save her life... Silent Grace was critically acclaimed.

Michael Dwyer in the Irish Times[4] gave it three stars and said it was "unusually even-handed, well judged... rooted in its humanist agenda, surmounts the limits of its very low budget, to emerge as a work of sincerity and concern."

[6] Ronnie Schieb in Variety,[7] David Parkinson in The Radio Times,[8] The Evening Standard, Rich Cline in Shadows on the Wall,[9] Anton Bietel in Movie Gazette, Belfast Telegraph and The Huffington Post[10] reviewed it favourably.