STORY OVERVIEW: The Quiet Fires     Eoin Ó Cuinn never wanted the crown, only the quiet. But when a young drug runner is found dead in a Dublin alley, the delicate balance holding his family's criminal operation together starts to fracture. Caught between his uncle’s violent legacy, a childhood friend turned detective, and the bitter memory of a sister who fled it all to become a nun, Eoin finds himself at the center of something he can no longer bury with pills and silence. As alliances shift and ghosts rise, Eoin is forced to reckon with a question he’s spent years avoiding:    Is survival still survival when it’s built on rot?    Set in the underworld of modern-day Ireland, where the streets remember and the Church still lingers. The Quiet Fire is a semi-fictional tale of inherited violence, reluctant power, and the ache of growing up broken but not beyond repair.HISTORICAL BACKDROP: IRISH ORGANIZED CRIME.     While often overshadowed by their Italian or Russian counterparts, Irish criminal networks — especially in cities like Dublin, Limerick, and Belfast — have long held terrifying power. From the infamous Westies of Blanchardstown to the bloody Kinahan–Hutch feud, Irish gangs carved their own path in the drug trade, racketeering, and cross-border smuggling — often in tandem or in conflict with paramilitary organizations.In this story, “The Family” is a fictional amalgam: an old-school Dublin crew with roots in local politics, ties to Spain, and a code of silence more Catholic than criminal. Not flashy, embedded.

THEMES.     Silence as inheritance. Addiction as grief management. Masculinity and self-destruction. Loyalty vs morality. Religious trauma and family rot. Ireland’s shadow history — the blend of Catholicism, crime, and community decay.    CONTENT WARNINGS / TRIGGERS     Drug addiction and benzo dependency; physical abuse (childhood and organized crime); Psychological trauma and suppressed PTSD; Mentions of suicide ideation; Catholic guilt, religious trauma; Death of a parent (off-screen, natural causes); Organized crime, including murder and money laundering; Emotional repression, verbal violence; Corruption and police misconduct.

BASED ON / INSPIRED BY
TRUE EVENTS & HISTORY     The Kinahan–Hutch feud (Dublin, 2015–ongoing); The rise and fall of The Westies gang (Blanchardstown); Ireland’s heroin epidemic in the ‘80s and its long aftershocks; The hidden role of the Catholic Church in silencing abuse and shaping shame; Cross-border smuggling between Ireland, Spain, and the UK; The culture of silence and generational trauma in working-class Irish families.
MEDIA & ART     Love/Hate (RTÉ series); Michael Inside (Frank Berry, 2017); Calvary (John Michael McDonagh, 2014); The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006) — for quiet radicalization; You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 2017) — for psychological violence; The Sopranos & The Wire — for family, decay, moral erosion.
LITERARY & CULTURAL REFERENCES     Seamus Heaney, especially poems like Punishment and The Underground; Anne Enright’s The Gathering: grief and dysfunctional Irish families; Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart: rural voices post-crash; The structure of Greek tragedy (fatal flaw, inherited guilt, downfall); Catholic iconography and Irish funeral rites; St. Dymphna and the folk madness of saints.
SOUND & MOOD     Thin Lizzy; Fontaines D.C.; The Murder Capital; Gilla Band; Sinead O’Connor (esp. Black Boys on Mopeds); Hozier’s In a Week; Burial; Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds; GY!BE.

name.     Eoin Ó Cuinn.
nicknames.     "Ghost," “Number Boy,” “That Cuinn Lad”
gender.     man, he/him.
date of birth.     01/02/1995.
age.     30.
occupation.     Money handler for “The Family”; crypto laundering, property flipping, logistical ghost work.
birthplace.     Ballyfermot, Dublin.
current residence.     A flat above a pawn shop in Inchicore, paid in cash, never in his name.persona.     Smart, quiet, unreadable. Everyone thinks he’s the calm one, until he isn’t. The pills dull the edges, but under it all he’s full of static, memory, and barely-bottled violence. Doesn’t believe in God, but still wears the rosary his mother died clutching.
positive.     Loyal, clever, steady under pressure, observant.
neutral.     Reserved, unflinching, suspicious, old-school.
negative traits.     Addictive tendencies, emotionally withdrawn, volatile under stress, self-loathing.
likes.     Silence, 3AM walks, numbers that balance, warm tea he never finishes, letters from his sister (even when he doesn’t open them).
dislikes.     Loud people, cops, loyalty tests, confession booths, sunlight after a binge.
hobbies.     Counting cash blindfolded. Staring at walls. Listening to music he’ll never admit liking. Picking at his scars.eyes.     Green: sharp when sober, glassy when high.
hair.     Brown, unkempt, always a bit too long.
build.     Athletic under layers of cigarettes and sleep deprivation.
modifications.     a couple tattoos.

loyalty.       buried with his mother.
fear.       wears it like a second skin.
rage.       silent until it breaks something.
faith.       lost in childhood, still aches sometimes.
addiction.       blue pills, red nights, no exit.
violence.       knows the weight of fists and favors.
memory.       sharp in all the wrong places.
love.       he’d rather bite down than speak it.
control.       a myth he tells himself daily.
grief.       keeps it folded in his coat pocket.
resolve.       cracking.
hope.       flickers. embarrassingly.

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