The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One (Republic of Ireland) and BBC1 (United Kingdom) in 1995.

[2] Under pressure to pay rental arrears, members of a secret society convict land agent Henry Jenkins in a "hedgerow trial" and brutally execute him, also murdering his coach driver.

[3] The replacement agent, Captain William Townsend (Michael Kitchen), soon arrives and begins reviewing papers and investigating the state of affairs of both the land and tenants.

After agreeing to see a group of three only on the following day, he narrowly avoids being lynched when the conversation doesn't go the way the tenants would like.

He asks Mary Dolan (Tina Kellegher) his maid who was hired on after being turned out of their land by Townsend himself when her family could not pay rent, to help him off with his boots.

The berries make her ill and she is nursed back to health by Townsend and his doctor who recognizes her signs of pregnancy.

Conor, still on the lam from British soldiers after his escape finds Sean's wife and children, and joins them as they emigrate to America on an assisted passage scheme, which Townsend creates false documents to facilitate.