DUBLIN ABSOLUTION — Crime Screenplay

Father Eamon Doyle wanted a quiet parish in the Liberties. What he got was the Irish Civil War arriving at his confessional, and the commander on the other side of the screen unburdening a sin Doyle cannot mention and cannot forgive. When Free State Captain Declan Walsh begins arresting suspects for the killings, Doyle recognizes the face of the true informant in the Sunday pews and understands that silence will condemn an innocent man to the rope. Absolution was supposed to be a sacrament. In this parish, it becomes a weapon.

A priest in 1923 Dublin hears an IRA commander confess to executing a family as informants. The family was innocent. The real informant is in his congregation every Sunday. The seal of confession says he can never tell.

• Genre: Crime
• 110 pages
• Language: EN
• Format: feature screenplay, instant PDF download
• Available editions: Reader, Producer, and Collector licenses

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