Dan Burke, farmer and herd Nora Burke, his wife Micheal Dara, a young herd A Tramp Scene: The last cottage at the head of a long glen in County Wicklow. Cottage kitchen; turf fire on the right; a bed ...

Dan Burke, farmer and herd Nora Burke, his wife Micheal Dara, a young herd A Tramp Scene: The last cottage at the head of a long glen in County Wicklow....

Cottage kitchen; turf fire on the right; a bed near it against the wall with a body lying on it covered with a sheet. A door is at the other end of the room, with a low table near it, and stools, or w...

Maurya, an old woman Bartley, her son Cathleen, her daughter Nora, a younger daughter Men and women Scene: An Island off the West of Ireland. Cottage kitchen, with nets, oilskins, spinning wheel, some...

Maurya, an old woman Bartley, her son Cathleen, her daughter Nora, a younger daughter Men and women Scene: An Island off the West of Ireland....

Cottage kitchen, with nets, oilskins, spinning wheel, some new boards standing by the wall, etc. Cathleen, a girl of about twenty, finishes kneading cake, and puts it down in the pot-oven by the fire;...

The drama is made serious⁠—in the French sense of the word⁠—not by the degree in which it is taken up with problems that are serious in themselves, but by the degree in which it gives the nourishment,...

The drama is made serious⁠—in the French sense of the word⁠—not by the degree in which it is taken up with problems that are serious in themselves, but by the degree in which it gives the nourishment,...

Michael Byrne, a tinker Mary Byrne, an old woman, his mother Sarah Casey, a young tinker woman A Priest Scene: A village roadside after nightfall....

Scene: A village roadside after nightfall. A fire of sticks is burning near the ditch a little to the right. Michael is working beside it. In the background, on the left, a sort of tent and ragged clo...

Scene: The same. Early morning. Sarah is washing her face in an old bucket; then plaits her hair. Michael is tidying himself also. Mary Byrne is asleep against the ditch. Sarah: To Michael, with pleas...