A Terrible Beauty synopsis

A Catholic family in Belfast gamely tries 
to carry on their family life and business 
in the growing shadow of a terror campaign 
waged against Nationalists in the North of Ireland 
by Loyalists to the British Crown 
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The Gallagher family prepares to sit down to its traditional Irish supper in late 1922

when a series of unexpected guests pound at their door in mounting desperation,

seeking refuge from the violence erupting just down the road.

 After the Anglo-Irish War of Independence ends

with a highly contested Treaty, late in 1921,

and the Irish Civil War looms only a few months ahead,

a nationalist middle-class Catholic family in northern Ireland

tries to co-exist peaceably amidst the mounting struggle

between the free-state Irish Republicans of the South

who refuse to accept the Ulster Partition,

and the Irish Loyalists of the North

who will fight to the death

to remain under British rule and protection.