Shake Hands with the Devil

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

• rebellion
• liberation of hostage
• irish-american
• dublin, ireland
• hostage-taking
• ira (irish republican army)
• ireland
• bombing
• medical student
• 1920s
• freedom fighters
• new recruit
• irish republican
• irish history
• irish war of independence (1919-22)
• irish
• fugitive suspect
• irish resistance
• political violence
• british crimes
• symbolic violence
• undercover mission
• black and tan