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‘Home from Home’ – Series on Role of GAA in Irish Emigration – Airs Tonight
26 Aug 2014 : Deirdre Molumby
‘Home from Home’, a new two-part documentary series airs tonight (Tuesday, August 26th) and tomorrow (Wednesday, August 27th) on Setanta Sports at 9.45pm.

‘Home From Home’ tells the story of Irish emigration past and present by documenting the stories of both well-established and newly-arrived members of four overseas GAA clubs based in Christchurch, Dubai, London and Toronto. The portraits of the clubs as they functioned in 2013 are inter-cut with stories and anecdotes that chart the spread of GAA sports around the world throughout the past century or so.

By portraying the spread of GAA around the world a unique prism through which the story of Irish emigration, right through to the present day, is told. This series charts and explores the processes involved in the transfer of Gaelic sports from Ireland to significant focal points of Irish immigration as well as explaining the role GAA clubs played in the promotion and preservation of a distinctively Irish ethnic identity overseas. Little has been said about the crucial role of sports in emigration before.

Christchurch GAA, Durham Robert Emmet’s Gaelic Football Club of Toronto, Fr. Murphy’s GAA Club of London and the Dubai Celts were selected as these are the bedrock of the Irish communities in their four respective international cities, providing a social outlet for new arrivals, an opportunity to secure jobs through the Irish network and a place where those who arrived long ago with every intention of eventually returning home can reminisce.

This series will show that in much the same way as it has in Ireland, Gaelic sport has provided a platform for the Irish diaspora to construct and give vent to a distinctively Irish ethnic and national identity.

‘Home from Home’ is directed by Andrew Gallimore and produced by Lucia Gavin of Midas Productions (‘Women on the Inside’, ‘The Island’) for Setanta Sports. The documentary was produced with the support of the Sound & Vision fund of the Broadcasting Association of Ireland.

View a trailer for the series below:







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