Island

Michael Carolan

Ireland / 2004 / Documentary / 13’30”I0500846

Island
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SYNOPSIS

On November 9th, 1935, twenty migrant potato pickers returning from Scotland sailed from Burtonport to Arranmore Island off Donegal. The boat capsized in the open Atlantic. Nineteen drowned. Only one man, Patrick Gallagher, survived.

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