Bog Ball in the Bronx is a very American story about a very Irish family who hold onto their heritage by playing Gaelic Football. 7 years later they return to a seemingly foreign Ireland. Will football help them to reconnect?

Every Saturday at 4:30 am, a very young Anne Holland smiled for 75 miles as she was driven to play for one of Ireland’s first girls Gaelic Football teams. 15 years later she travels 3000 miles to the Bronx to find an entire league of female Gaelic football players.

Now it’s 2001. After 6 years in New York she has married and become president of the city’s Women’s Gaelic Athletic Association. But with a house to build and two children to look after, her days frequently run on empty. Frustrated with what to make of America, she is happy to have some “me time” at Gaelic football practice.

But America doesn’t know what to make of Gaelic Football. The man who runs the pizza shop next to the century old Gaelic Park has no clue why 2000 pasty white people come to the Bronx every summer on a Sunday afternoon.

Interviews with the charismatic older generation of Irish immigrants reopen a enchanting chapter of New York’s Irish history that is visibly buried by the millions of other stories that give this city its persona.

This character driven narrative uses observational footage and the to capture the private life of Anne and her family. We witness how she teaches her two daughters the Gaelic language and the finer art of kicking a three-point goal.

But as she listens to her daughters’ New York accents, Anne fears they may become too proud, too opinionated, too “American.”

7 years later Anne decides to move back with her family to Ireland. But life is not the same. People she knew have moved away, and the cost of bottle of milk has become ridiculous. Her daughters are in a completely foreign country and are ostracized in school for their American accents.

Once again, Anne and her family turn to Gaelic football to find their true identity.

20 hours of digital footage from 2001 of Anne’s life and Irish Sporting Culture in the Bronx has been captured. Production funding is needed to complete the bulk of the filming including, Anne and her family’s new life in Ireland, interviews with New York’s elderly yet spry Irish-American armchair historians, as well as a reunion visit for Anne to New York.