Aired Sunday July 3, 8:30pm - 10:00pmon BBC Four

Lights Up

Series 2 Episode 1: Rough Girls

A century after the formation of the first Northern Irish women's football team, Derry Girls' Tara Lynne O'Neill's debut play, enacted by an all-female cast, chronicles the courage and determination of the women who became known as the suffragettes of soccer. In Belfast in September 1917, in the midst of World War I and one year after the Easter Rising, a group of women representing the teams Celtic and Distillery got together to play football in front of 16,000 fans at Grosvenor Park.

Cast and crew
  • Kimberley SykesDirector
  • Tara O'NeillShe
  • Carol MooreMrs C
  • Claire CoganMrs O'Neill
  • Jo DonnellyMrs Stott
  • Nicky HarleyDuncher
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