The Open Air screening of Jimmy's Hall is moved to Market Square, Main Street Manorhamilton

Jimmy's Hall

During the Depression, Leitrim man 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, the only man ever deported from Ireland.

It is ten years since Ken Loach shot his Irish follow up to The Wind that Shakes the Barley. The origins of the feature film lie in a musical theatre piece devised by Leitrim based writer Donal O'Kelly and first performed in Manorhamilton under the title Jimmy Gralton's Dancehall. Donal O'Kelly introduced screenwriter Paul Laverty to the play and the story of Gralton and the result was an original screenplay by Paul Laverty and a well received feature film directed by Ken Loach.