Jimmy's Hall
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 de...
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"This story highlights the struggle for individual respect and liberty that has been going on since the reformation. Today, people often attach words communist or socialist to the struggle of the individual. This film reminds us of the other side of the story: greed and power are the feudal and capitalist side of the story. One flaw in the movie is that people assume the struggle between Jimmy and the priest is communism versus the church. But Jimmy was not a communist. Jimmy was a grass-roots liberal who supported his community and occasionally spoke out against the concentration of power. Th..."
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The real Jimmy Gralton was the only Irishman ever deported from Ireland after Irish Independence. After the release of the film, a 2015 campaign (including an online petition) was started with the aim to rescind the deportation order and extend an official apology to his family. In 2016, this resulted in the President of Ireland stating the only deportation of an Irishman from Ireland was "wrong and indefensible." He unveiled a Gralton memorial at Effrinagh outside Carrick-on-Shannon, on the site where the hall once stood. The stone edifice, which tells Gralton's life story as a labor campaigner, was partially funded by the trade union movement.
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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 de...