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This Is My Father

Name: This Is My Father
Released: 1998

1998

A weary Irish-American schoolteacher travels to Ireland to uncover the story of his parents, piecing together the tragic, forbidden love affair between his mother and a poor farmer decades earlier. A tender, elegiac drama.

Why it’s here

A Canadian outsider drama reconstructing a family story in rural Ireland.

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Part of 10 Movies Set in or About Ireland

This film is stop 8 of 10 in the hand-ranked outside-view route set in or about Ireland. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

This outside view can stamp Ireland in the 196 country film challenge.