A screening of the movie "The Minnitts of Anabeg" will take place on Wednesday August 1st at the New York Irish Centre.

"Based on the true lives of the Minnitt family from Tipperary who owned over 1,000 acres of land at Anabeg House in Nenagh during the Great Hunger. Frank McGrath plays Joshua Minnitt, an English Justice of the Peace, disinherited by his father after marrying a Catholic girl. He works to save a community and to save his own family."

Tickets for the event are $15 or $8 for seniors, students and unemployed. The doors for the screening are 7.30pm and there will be complimentary tea, coffee, soda and popcorn for people with advanced tickets.

Tickets can be purchased from the New York Irish Centre