"Jimmy's Hall" is a glimpse into Ireland in 1932 when the country was in a relative lull between wars, turmoil and strife. Director Ken Loach has consistently worked to bring the lives of the United Kingdom's working class to cinema screens. "Jimmy's Hall" is his second foray into Ireland following "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" in 2006. Loach's new film fleshes out his fascination with real-life Irish political activist Jimmy Gralton (played by Barry Ward). After many confrontations with the local police and other authority figures, Gralton left Ireland in 1922 and spent a decade in New York as a political exile. The story told in "Jimmy's Hall" begins when he returns to his hometown of Leitrim, a village in Ireland's Border Region.