Jimmy’s Hall (2014)

1932. Jimmy Gralton is back home in the Irish countryside after ten years of forced exile in the USA. His widowed mother Alice is happy, Jimmy’s friends are happy, all the young people who enjoy dancing and singing are happy. Which is not the case of Father Sheridan, the local priest, nor of the village squire, nor of Dennis O’Keefe, the chief of the fascists.

Jimmy's Hall (2014)

109 min|Biography, Drama, History|30 May 2014

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During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.

Director: Ken Loach
Creator: Paul Laverty (screenplay)
Actors: Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry, Simone Kirby