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The documentary 'Dreaming the Quiet Man' has interviews with Ford enthusiasts such as Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Joe McBride, as well as interviews with Ford himself. Archival footage and unusual pictures from the film's production are on display. It is set mostly in Ford's ancestral home of Connemara, on the west coast of Ireland, where his parents were born, which serves as the primary setting for the documentary. It is through the Feeney family that Ford's parents were forced to flee Ireland after the Great Famine, and it is through Ford's return to Ireland in 1922 to visit his distant cousins the Thorntons that he witnesses their home being burned down by the infamous Black and Tans, that we come to know Ford. Ford made a donation to the IRA while pretending to be investigating locations for a film. To find out more about Ford's childhood and how he became a director during the golden age of Hollywood, we visit to Portland, Maine. However, Ireland was always on his mind as he struggled to achieve success.