were trying to use red scare tactics against both Fianna Fáil and the IRA. The IRA army council forbade the socialists Frank Ryan and Mick Price from campaigning in Leitrim on Gralton's behalf. Peadar O'Donnell travelled to Drumsna in Leitrim for a public meeting in support of Gralton but was violently attacked by locals led by the parish priest. Another group of socialists led by Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington came down from Dublin to support Gralton, however BJ Maguire a Fianna Fáil TD for Leitrim came out against Gralton for "propagating English ideas". Local members of Fianna Fáil and trade unions were divided over Gralton. In August 1933 Gralton was caught by the authorities and deported to the US from Galway. In October 1933 Gralton stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Communist party in the 13th district of Manhattan, New York. As a member of the New York based Irish Workers Club, Gralton ran courses, spreading the teachings of James Connolly. Shortly before his death from stomach cancer, in New York on 29 December 1945, he married Bessie Cronogue (d. 1975), a woman from Drumsna, County Leitrim, only a few miles from where he had been brought up. Jimmy's Hall It was announced in April 2014 that Jimmy's Hall, a film by British filmmaker Ken Loach based on the life of Gralton, had been selected for competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It was released on 30 May 2014. This film was partially filmed in the village of Drumsna, a few miles from Gralton's birthplace in Effrinagh. In 2017, Dublin's Abbey Theatre presented a musical adaptation of the film. It had its world premiere in Carrick-on-Shannon in advance of its run at the Abbey. Campaign for apology In 2015, a campaign was launched to exonerate Gralton by officially rescinding the deportation order and offering an apology to his family. A motion to support this campaign was passed by Leitrim and Sligo County Councils and the campaign was extended throughout Ireland. An online petition was launched on 23 December 2015 by the then-Mayor of Sligo, Councillor Thomas Healy. On 3 September 2016 President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said the only deportation of an Irishman from Ireland was "wrong and indefensible". President Higgins unveiled a memorial to Gralton at Effrinagh outside Carrick-on-Shannon, on the site where the hall once stood. The stone edifice, which tells the story of Gralton's life as