Storm Front in Mayo

Overview

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

Directed by Gerry Gregg

Top cast

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Eva Sweeney

Young Maureen Flavin Sweeney

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Colin Wright

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Mike Johnson

Captain James Stagg

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John Downes

Met Éireann Telephone Operator

Antony Beevor

Self - Historian

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Robert Gerwarth

Self - Historian

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Susan Eisenhower

Self - Eisenhower's Granddaughter

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Joseph Skelly

Self - Historian

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Richard G. Trefry

Self - Retired US Army Lt. General

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Maureen Flavin Sweeney

Self - Weather Observer (1944)

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Gerald Fleming

Self - Meteorologist

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David McCullagh

Self - Journalist

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Catherine Ross

Self - British Met Office Archivist

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Jeremy Green

Self - British Military Police Colonel

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Rodney Teck

Self - Climate Researcher

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John C. Sweeney

Self - Climate Researcher

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Vincent Sweeney

Self - Lighthouse Keeper

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Richard Callaghan

Self - Royal MP Museum Curator

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Joe Cattini

Self - D-Day Veteran

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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