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Ireland, early 1950s. Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) is a young woman working in a grocery shop. She has greater ambitions and moves to Brooklyn, New York, leaving her mother and sister, Rose (Fiona Glascott), behind. She is terribly homesick but eventually settles down, finding a job, studying to be a bookkeeper and meeting a nice young Italian man, Tony Fiorello (Emory Cohen). Things are going well, but then she learns that Rose has died, and decides to return to Ireland, temporarily. She and Tony hastily get married, and then she sets off back to Ireland, alone. Life is about to get complicated.
1950. Despite having a good head on her shoulders and being a hard worker, shy Eilis Lacey has had no opportunities in life in her hometown of Enniscorthy, Ireland, especially ending up working a dead end job as a clerk in demanding and disagreeable Miss Kellys grocery store. Realizing Eilis situation, her caring sister, Rose Lacey, makes arrangements with Father Flood in Brooklyn for Rose to immigrate there, he who will arrange a job for her as a clerk in a department store and to live in Mrs. Kehoes boarding house, as such being immersed within the Irish immigrant population. Roses actions are despite realizing that she will end up being the sole caregiver for her and Eilis mother. Despite Father Floods efforts, he doesnt realize just how homesick Eilis is in being away from her familiar settings, as depressive at it was. Father Flood decides to be more hands on with Eilis, including paying for her tuition to attend night school so that Eilis can expand beyond her clerk job to be come an accountant just like Rose. But arguably what breaks Eilis out of her homesickness is meeting a boy, plumber Tony, at an Irish dance, he who eventually admits that he proverbially crashed the dance in not being Irish, but rather Italian, his family name Fiorello. She discovers that Tony is kind, caring, thoughtful of her feelings, and has fallen in love with her. Eilis can admit to herself and finally to Tony that she too has fallen in love with him. As she finally starts to feel at home in Brooklyn, she is physically and emotionally pulled back to Enniscorthy in a change of situation, which tears her between Enniscorthy and her new life in Brooklyn with Tony, especially problematic as she has told no one in Enniscorthy about him.
Saoirse Ronan
Eilis
Emory Cohen
Tony
Domhnall Gleeson
Jim Farrell
Jim Broadbent
Father Flood
Hugh Gormley
Priest
Brid Brennan
Miss Kelly
Maeve McGrath
Mary
Emma Lowe
Mrs Brady
Barbara Drennan
Shabby Woman
Gillian McCarthy
Timid Woman
Fiona Glascott
Rose Lacey
Jane Brennan
Mary Lacey
Eileen O'Higgins
Nancy
Art Campion
George Sheridan
Eva Birthistle
Georgina
James Corscadden
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Julie Walters
Mrs. Kehoe
Emily Bett Rickards
Patty
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