Arracht

'''''' (; 'Monster') is a 2019 Irish period drama film directed and written by set during the Great Famine of Ireland. It was selected as the Irish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

==Plot== Connemara, 1845. Sharkey lives with his wife and infant son on the Atlantic coast where they subsist on the fish he catches with his brother and the potatoes grown on the family farm. He is persuaded to take on Patsy Kelly, who has recently left the Royal Navy under suspicious circumstances, as a farmhand and fisherman. Word has spread of a blight affecting the potato crop as far as the Midlands, leading to widespread famine. The blight soon reaches Connemara, where the potato crops wither in the fields. The local landlord increases rents and sends two armed men to 's home to collect. Patsy disarms one of them but is pressured by into relinquishing the gun as requests a meeting with the landlord.