Professor Patrick Joyce, one of the UK’s leading social historians, and Francis Hanly, award-winning documentarist, are collaborating on a new type of history film, a lyrical and moving exploration about the meaning of home and the ties of family, based on Patrick’s memoir ‘Going To My Father’s House’.

At the heart of ‘The House, The Road and The Grave’ is the experience of immigrants and the children of immigrants. It explores what it is to be caught between two countries and two cultures which are sometimes at odds with each other. It asks the question that is fundamental to all of us, ‘Where is home?’.

• The House, The Road & The Grave tells an untold story. The Irish have been for centuries the largest immigrant group in Britain but their story and the effect they have had on British society has never been told -until now.
• The film is as much about British and English identity as it is about Irish immigration. In the wake of Brexit, questions about identity, ethnicity and nationhood have fuelled an increasingly fevered and anxious public debate.
• The film is about the sons and daughters of emigrants – how do they experience their identity in Britain, caught between two cultures, two countries.

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