Riverbank Cinema Presents: Jimmy's Hall
Director: Ken Loach / Ireland / 2014 / 108 mins / Cert: 15A / Language: English
Riverbank Arts CentreNewbridge
Event Details
- Mon 8 Sep 2014
- 8.00pm
- Cost: €6
- Venue Details
Riverbank Arts Centre
Main St.
Newbridge
Starring: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott, Jim Norton
Based on the true story of Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman deported from his own country as an “illegal alien”, what Ken Loach has announced as his last fiction feature focuses on the dance hall Gralton opened in rural Leitrim, at a time when Ireland was on the brink of Civil War. A place where young people could come to be free, to dance, and have fun, quickly came to the attention of the Church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.
Returning a decade later, and seeing the poverty and growing cultural oppression around him, Jimmy reopens the hall, regardless of the consequences.
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