Artists

The artists creating Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall are musicians Seamie O’Dowd, Rossa Ó Snodaigh, Dee Armstrong, Seanan Brennan, Margo Barrow, Ciarán Wilde and Brian Fleming, visual artists Jackie McKenna and Édaín O’Donnell, theatre artists Sorcha Fox, Jaimie Carswell, Des Braiden and Donal O’Kelly. Residents in Sligo’s Globe House centre for asylum-seekers and many local residents who take part as dancers.

Title of Exhibition: 'Jimmy Gralton's Dancehall'
 
About the Show:

Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall is a celebration through art, theatre, music and dance of the vision and spirit of Leitrim’s Jimmy Gralton. Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall is a metaphor for what Ireland might be, a place where people are welcome to dance in a spirit of positive civil liberties, named after the only Irishman deported as an undesirable alien, Leitrim’s Jimmy Gralton.

Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall is supported by an Arts Council Theatre Development grant, by Foras na Gaeilge, and by local arts institutions; the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Benbo Productions and the Glens Centre Manorhamilton.

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