Home on the Island: First Annual Irish Feile Festival

[BI Community Center]

Join us for repeat showings of this fascinating documentary that tells the story of Irish migration to Beaver Island...and the twinning of unique islands with shared ancestory on both sides of the Atlantic.

Part of the First Annual Irish Feile Festival: This Documentary will be playing on a loop Friday September 06 from Noon-5pm, and Saturday from Noon-3pm.

Director: Shane Brennan
In 1851, over one hundred and fifty residents of Arainn Mhor Island, off the coast of Donegal, were evicted from their homes. Speaking only Gaelic, they stayed together as a group upon arrival in the new world, and worked on the railroads in Canada. After a time, they found their way to Beaver Island, in the middle of Lake Michigan, where they established a new community, a miniature Arainn Mhor in exile. Home on the Island tells the story of the evictees and their journey to Beaver Island but, more importantly, it endeavoured to describe the character of the two communities who share the same ancestry, but are separated by the Atlantic Ocean.

At the Beaver Island Community Center