How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

90 minutes

9/25/2016

Overview

The extraordinary untold story of how an NYPD bomb disposal expert played a key role in helping defuse the decades old "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. In 1975, Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad – gathered a group of family, friends and neighbours to start a scheme offering children from Northern Ireland a chance to temporarily escape the violent turmoil of their daily lives. From modest beginnings, Project Children ultimately brought over 20,000 Catholic and Protestant children to suburban US for summer-long visits where they forged unexpected friendships and found they had more in common with the 'enemy' than they thought. Now this extraordinary untold story is being brought to the screen in a new documentary by Des Henderson, and narrated by Liam Neeson, entitled How To Defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story.

Cast List

Liam Neeson
as Narrator (voice)
Denis Mulcahy
as Self
Bill Clinton
as Self
Eamonn McCann
as Self
Pat Mulcahy
as Self
Duke Hoffman
as Self
Carol Hoffman
as Self
Monica Culburt
as Self
Nancy Stanfield
as Self
Jim Stanfield
as Self
Peter Stanfield
as Self
Carol Wheeler
as Self
Kitty Higgins
as Self
Mary Anne Sullivan
as Self
Rep Jim Walsh
as Self
Congressman Joe Crowley
as Self
Martin McGuinness
as Self