Film

Graceville - Na Connemaras i Minnesota

1997 · 48m · Documentary

This documentary traces the emigration of 50 Irish families, mostly from Connemara, who were transported to Minnesota in 1880 in a misguided attempt to colonise middle America with Catholic families. Each of them was given 640 acres of Sioux land which, despite their primarily fishing background, they were required to farm to survive. Tragically, the experiment was doomed to failure, as some of the descendants of the original transplanted families describe.

• Bob QuinnDirector

Release date

January 1, 1997

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

48m

Rated

G

Genres

Documentary