The Brylcreem Boys

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The Brylcreem Boys is a 1997 film directed and co-written by Terence Ryan about the extraordinary neutrality arrangements pertaining to Ireland during World War II, by the Éamon de Valera government. The title is from a popular nickname for the RAF during the period.

Dublin made agreements with Berlin and London during the war that any serviceman, on active service, found on Irish soil would be interned for the duration of hostilities. In practice they were interned in adjoining camps, at Naas, County Kildare. The film is a romantic comedy with a triangle formed by a Canadian pilot, a German pilot, both interned at the camp under extremely flexible arrangements, and a local woman.

The film stars Billy Campbell and Angus MacFadyen as the two pilots, Riverdance star Jean Butler as the Irish woman they fall in love with and Gabriel Byrne as the internment camp commander.

The film was made on the Isle of Man.

[edit] See also

• Irish neutrality

[edit] External links

• The Brylcreem Boys at the Internet Movie Database