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Updated: May 17, 2025
Aye, the very fire on the hearth will leap in memory of the hands that tended it. Donagh: This will be such a day as will be made a boast of for ever in Carrabane. Mrs. Ford: Let there be music and the sound of rejoicing and shouts from the hills. Let those who put their feet in anger upon us and who are themselves reduced to-day look back upon the strength they held and the power they lost.
Ford rises slowly, "humouring" the march with her stick, her face expressing her delight. Mrs. Ford: That's the spirit of Carrabane. Let the people now look upon me in this place and let them take pride in my son. Donagh: I see Stephen Mac Donagh. Mrs. Ford: Let him be the first across the threshold, for he went to jail with Donagh Ford.
And I heard the people cheering. I thought maybe it was some strife was going on in Carrabane. It was always a place of one struggle or another. And they have mislaid the scoop again. I'm tired telling them not to be leaving it in the barn. Where is that Martin Driscoll and what way is he doing his business at all? Donagh: A boy who was here long ago.
Was it not something to see you and Donagh coming from a miserable place in the bog? Mrs. Blessed be God! Is Curley the planter gone from Carrabane? Don't make any lie to me, Hugh Deely. Hugh: Curley is gone. Mrs. What about his trollop of a wife? Donagh: The whole brood and tribe of them went a month back. Agnes: Did not Donagh tell you that you were back in your own place again?
Look at the great name your father left behind him in Carrabane. It would be a fine sight for him if he had lived to stand at this door now, looking at the horses bringing the plough over the ground. Donagh: And if he could move about this house, even in his great age. He never got accustomed to the smallness of the hut down at Cussmona.
Hugh: When I was a bit of a gosoon I remember the people talking about the eviction of Donagh Ford. It was terrible work used to be in Carrabane those times. Your father was the first man to fight, and that was why the people thought so well of him. Donagh: He would never speak of it himself, for at home he was a silent, proud man. But my mother used to be telling me of it many a time.
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