The Outcasts, written and directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons and starring Mary Ryan and Mick Lally, is an Irish film completed in 1982 and broadcast in 1984 as part of UK's Channel 4 Film on Four series.

This 95-minute feature film was written and directed in 1982 by Robert Wynne-Simmons, starring Mary Ryan as Maura and Mick Lally as Scarf Michael.

[1] The plot is based on Irish mythology and history and is set before the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852.

Influences include The Book of Thel by William Blake, and poetry by W. B. Yeats.

Maura is an apparently backward girl who is awakened by an outcast fairy, fiddler and shaman known as Scarf Michael.