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Jimmy's Hall is a 2014 drama film directed by Ken Loach. The film tells the story of the deportation to the United States in 1933 of Irish Communist Jimmy Gralton, who led the Revolutionary Workers' Group, a precursor of the Communist Party of Ireland, in County Leitrim. [3]
May 30, 2014 · Jimmy's Hall: Directed by Ken Loach. With Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry, Simone Kirby. During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America.
The movie’s protagonist, Jimmy Gralton—the Jimmy of the title, played with quiet charisma and conviction by Barry Ward—is back in his home in Ireland’s County Leitrim after a ten-year exile, and while away he’s been working in New York, and soaking up the culture. That culture is some of what he imparts to the community when he’s ...
Jimmy's Hall. NEW. In 1930s Ireland, political activist Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) faces deportation for running a community hall for the arts. Fandango at Home Prime Video Apple TV. Rent...
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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.
Apr 3, 2014 · Jimmy's Hall celebrates the spirit of these free thinkers. The film is set in 1932 and follows events when Jimmy returned from a decade in New York and re-opened the hall. The film is freely...
After being deported from Ireland to the U.S., political activist Jimmy Gralton returns to his hometown a decade later and reopens the dance hall he once ran - much to the dismay of community leaders.
May 22, 2014 · The latest activist drama from the elder statesman of British political cinema is a heartfelt portrait of ideological warfare in 1930s Ireland. Ken Loach has taken a despicable episode of modern ...
Taking advantage of the temporary peace, Jimmy offers to establish a new community hall on his father’s land. It is built by voluntary local labour. The Pearse-Connolly Hall, named after two of the prominent executed leaders of the 1916 Rising, is opened on New Year’s Eve 1921.
JIMMY'S HALL. In 1921, Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland on the brink of Civil War. Young people could come to the hall to learn, to argue, to dream . . . but above all to dance and have fun.
