1 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:29,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.SubtitleDB.org today 2 00:03:34,195 --> 00:03:38,240 When I cast my mind back to that summer of 1936... 3 00:03:38,324 --> 00:03:41,535 different kinds of memories offer themselves to me. 4 00:03:42,703 --> 00:03:45,165 We got our first wireless set that summer. 5 00:03:45,248 --> 00:03:46,833 Well, a sort of a set. 6 00:03:46,916 --> 00:03:49,585 And it obsessed us. 7 00:03:49,669 --> 00:03:53,339 We called it "Lugh" after the old pagan god of the harvest. 8 00:03:53,381 --> 00:03:57,551 His festival was Lughnasa, a time of music and dance. 9 00:03:59,011 --> 00:04:01,473 Then my mother's brother, my Uncle Jack... 10 00:04:01,556 --> 00:04:05,393 came home from Africa for the first time in 25 years. 11 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:08,396 He was the oldest of the family, and the only boy. 12 00:04:11,816 --> 00:04:13,734 That was my mother. 13 00:04:13,817 --> 00:04:16,445 She was the baby of the family. 14 00:04:17,946 --> 00:04:19,907 I'm gonna throw this old cracked thing out. 15 00:04:19,991 --> 00:04:22,118 You are not. I broke it. 16 00:04:22,201 --> 00:04:25,538 The only way to avoid seven years' bad luck is to keep usin' it. 17 00:04:25,579 --> 00:04:28,123 You know, I think I might just start to wear lipstick. 18 00:04:28,207 --> 00:04:32,294 Steady on there. Today, it's lipstick. Tomorrow it's the gin bottle. 19 00:04:38,676 --> 00:04:42,138 Oh, dear, a wild Woodbine. It's better than any man. 20 00:04:42,221 --> 00:04:44,640 Not that I'd know. 21 00:04:44,723 --> 00:04:46,809 Better not let Kate hear that kind of chat. 22 00:04:46,892 --> 00:04:49,645 If Aunt Maggie smoked and took life lightly... 23 00:04:49,728 --> 00:04:52,105 Aunt Kate did not. 24 00:04:52,147 --> 00:04:54,442 She was a schoolteacher, and a strict one. 25 00:04:54,525 --> 00:04:57,319 - What are you doing up there? - I'm putting the finishing touches on. 26 00:04:57,403 --> 00:05:00,739 - You should've done that yesterday. - I want it to look nice for Jack. 27 00:05:00,823 --> 00:05:04,034 Get yourself ready. Do you want the whole place laughing at us? 28 00:05:04,117 --> 00:05:06,244 - I've only to put on a skirt. - Do so, please. 29 00:05:06,328 --> 00:05:08,914 And do something with your hair as well. Where's Rose? 30 00:05:08,997 --> 00:05:10,415 Feeding the chickens. 31 00:05:10,457 --> 00:05:13,461 I suppose she looks like a mad woman as well. 32 00:05:13,544 --> 00:05:17,089 My mother used to whisper, "Agnes is deep. " 33 00:05:17,131 --> 00:05:19,550 She says little. 34 00:05:20,801 --> 00:05:24,262 That's Aunt Rose. Rose was a bit slow. 35 00:05:24,304 --> 00:05:26,264 Simple. " That's the word we used. 36 00:05:27,140 --> 00:05:30,186 Mussolini will be there with his airplanes in the air 37 00:05:30,269 --> 00:05:32,730 Will you come to Abyssinia Will you come 38 00:05:32,813 --> 00:05:35,107 Mussolini is many miles away. 39 00:05:35,148 --> 00:05:38,235 Father Jack, your only brother, will be in Ballybeg in one hour. 40 00:05:38,318 --> 00:05:40,612 Would you please make yourself presentable? 41 00:05:43,198 --> 00:05:46,702 Don't mind her. She's only an old gander. 42 00:05:46,785 --> 00:05:48,203 Gander! 43 00:05:55,001 --> 00:05:57,587 And so we set out to meet my Uncle Jack. 44 00:05:57,671 --> 00:05:59,589 Little did I know it... 45 00:05:59,672 --> 00:06:01,341 child as I was... 46 00:06:01,424 --> 00:06:04,428 that this was the beginning of things changing. 47 00:06:04,511 --> 00:06:07,264 Changing so quickly. Too quickly. 48 00:06:08,140 --> 00:06:10,267 - Excited? - I am, Mammy. 49 00:06:12,769 --> 00:06:14,771 Come on. 50 00:06:37,668 --> 00:06:39,838 Good day, Miss Mundy. 51 00:06:42,549 --> 00:06:45,010 Well, Miss Mundy. Big day for youse all. 52 00:06:45,051 --> 00:06:48,263 Father Jack, back at long last. 53 00:06:48,346 --> 00:06:50,515 It is indeed. Thank you very much. 54 00:06:50,598 --> 00:06:52,683 Something for youse all to be proud of. 55 00:06:52,725 --> 00:06:57,647 All that time amongst the lepers. The man's a saint. 56 00:06:57,731 --> 00:07:02,110 Thank you. Bus'll be in soon. If you'll excuse us. 57 00:07:02,193 --> 00:07:04,153 Give him our best wishes. 58 00:07:05,780 --> 00:07:08,491 Give him your arse and say it's parsley. 59 00:07:08,574 --> 00:07:12,620 That's enough, Margaret, thank you very much. 60 00:07:23,172 --> 00:07:25,716 - Look, it's Danny Bradley. - Hold your tongue. 61 00:07:25,758 --> 00:07:27,885 Will I run over to say hello? 62 00:07:27,968 --> 00:07:30,929 You'll stay right here beside me. 63 00:07:31,973 --> 00:07:33,391 He's a scut. 64 00:07:35,310 --> 00:07:37,687 With three children. The whole town knows it. 65 00:07:37,770 --> 00:07:41,732 You're a fine one to talk, Christina Mundy. 66 00:07:41,816 --> 00:07:43,692 You're jealous! 67 00:07:43,776 --> 00:07:46,070 That's what's wrong with the whole lot of youse! 68 00:07:46,111 --> 00:07:49,491 - You're jealous of me! - Just try to control yourself, please. 69 00:07:49,574 --> 00:07:52,493 His wife left him. She did the runner. 70 00:07:52,577 --> 00:07:54,745 She may have had her reasons. 71 00:07:56,455 --> 00:07:59,083 It's coming! The bus, it's coming! 72 00:08:00,417 --> 00:08:03,087 Oh, Jack. Oh, thank God, Jack. 73 00:08:22,356 --> 00:08:25,109 Ballybeg. Ten minutes. 74 00:08:25,193 --> 00:08:26,652 Father. 75 00:08:40,165 --> 00:08:41,959 - Is this... - Ballybeg. 76 00:08:42,001 --> 00:08:45,087 - Is this the name of where... - It's where you come from. 77 00:08:45,171 --> 00:08:47,756 - Am I home? - You're home, Jack. 78 00:08:51,343 --> 00:08:52,970 Mother is dead. 79 00:08:53,011 --> 00:08:55,138 She's not here. She's dead. 80 00:09:00,061 --> 00:09:03,772 Come on. Come and say hello to Maggie. 81 00:09:03,856 --> 00:09:06,692 - Maggie. - He's an old man, Mammy. 82 00:09:38,807 --> 00:09:40,726 Come on, Michael. 83 00:09:50,026 --> 00:09:52,654 Stop it, Aunt Maggie. 84 00:10:23,893 --> 00:10:26,395 His sisters loved Jack with all their hearts... 85 00:10:26,479 --> 00:10:29,816 sending what pennies they had to him in Africa. 86 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:33,236 Rose and Agnes knitting gloves for a living. 87 00:10:33,319 --> 00:10:36,906 All the women trying to keep house and home together. 88 00:11:08,313 --> 00:11:09,689 A miracle. 89 00:11:09,772 --> 00:11:12,608 That's no miracle. It is science. 90 00:11:12,650 --> 00:11:16,570 It's not science. It's the god of Lughnasa. 91 00:11:16,654 --> 00:11:19,948 Pagan nonsense celebrating the feast of Lughnasa. 92 00:11:20,033 --> 00:11:23,703 This is the month of August, the feast of Our Lady's Assumption Into Heaven. 93 00:11:23,786 --> 00:11:27,165 A goddess, rising through the sky and the stars... 94 00:11:27,248 --> 00:11:29,959 in search for her dear son. 95 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,378 Where is Michael's father? 96 00:11:35,381 --> 00:11:36,924 He's not here. 97 00:11:38,259 --> 00:11:39,802 They're not married. 98 00:11:41,220 --> 00:11:43,681 So Michael is a love child. 99 00:11:43,723 --> 00:11:45,683 A son conceived in love. 100 00:11:45,725 --> 00:11:48,477 I'm glad you have a child conceived in love. 101 00:11:48,519 --> 00:11:50,604 He's not mine. He's Christina's. 102 00:11:50,688 --> 00:11:52,397 - He's mine. - All of you. 103 00:11:52,481 --> 00:11:55,318 You all love him. He belongs to all of you. 104 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,820 Michael, go outside and play. 105 00:12:09,414 --> 00:12:11,375 Danny Bradley wants to marry me. 106 00:12:13,211 --> 00:12:18,799 He wants to take me up to the back hills one day to Lough Anna. 107 00:12:18,883 --> 00:12:20,509 Will you marry us? 108 00:12:20,551 --> 00:12:23,929 Danny Bradley can't marry you. He's married already. 109 00:12:24,012 --> 00:12:25,681 You know that. 110 00:12:25,764 --> 00:12:29,059 But he loves me, and I love him. 111 00:12:29,142 --> 00:12:31,604 - And his wife's left him. - That's not our business. 112 00:12:31,687 --> 00:12:35,524 You must be tired. Have a wee sleep before you eat. 113 00:12:35,566 --> 00:12:39,862 - It'll build up an appetite. - In Africa, we sleep and dream. 114 00:12:39,903 --> 00:12:44,241 - In the dream, we sacrifice to the gods. - This is not Africa. 115 00:12:44,324 --> 00:12:47,410 This is Ballybeg. Your home. 116 00:12:47,494 --> 00:12:49,622 This is Donegal. This is Ireland. 117 00:12:51,373 --> 00:12:53,000 Another miracle. 118 00:12:54,293 --> 00:12:56,753 It is not a miracle. It is science. 119 00:12:56,795 --> 00:13:00,298 It's music. Dance with me, Mother. 120 00:13:00,382 --> 00:13:03,635 No... Look, turn that off. I'll do it myself. 121 00:13:07,264 --> 00:13:09,349 I am not your mother. 122 00:13:09,433 --> 00:13:12,728 I am Kate, your eldest sister, and you're going to bed for a short while. 123 00:13:20,610 --> 00:13:24,156 The only miracles are those God ordains. 124 00:13:24,239 --> 00:13:27,576 And you are an ordained priest. You do not dance. 125 00:13:30,745 --> 00:13:34,249 Maggie, see Jack to his rest, if you please. 126 00:13:34,332 --> 00:13:35,792 My rest, yeah. 127 00:13:40,631 --> 00:13:45,093 Many women in Africa have love children. And they are loved. 128 00:13:45,177 --> 00:13:47,596 - As they are here. - Yes, as they are here. 129 00:13:47,637 --> 00:13:50,181 I didn't mean to upset you. 130 00:13:50,265 --> 00:13:53,601 I would like you all to have a love child. 131 00:13:53,685 --> 00:13:55,978 His Holiness, the Pope, would have something to say against that. 132 00:13:56,062 --> 00:13:57,188 Yes, he would. 133 00:13:57,271 --> 00:14:00,317 But he's never lived in Africa. 134 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,111 I'll put you to your bed. You need the rest. 135 00:14:03,194 --> 00:14:06,072 If His Holiness, the Pope, doesn't fancy his stay in Africa... 136 00:14:06,156 --> 00:14:07,699 I could take his place. 137 00:14:07,782 --> 00:14:10,618 The sisters here will tell ya I've been looking for a beautiful black man. 138 00:14:11,661 --> 00:14:13,788 Come on, Jack. Bed. 139 00:14:13,829 --> 00:14:15,456 A wee rest. 140 00:14:18,501 --> 00:14:20,420 I have to laugh at you, Christina Mundy. 141 00:14:21,629 --> 00:14:24,424 Whenever you say you've to laugh at me, I know you're not laughing. 142 00:14:24,507 --> 00:14:28,052 And I've to say I have to laugh at you, Rose Mundy. 143 00:14:29,303 --> 00:14:31,222 A brother home from the foreign missions. 144 00:14:31,305 --> 00:14:34,601 A priest, confronted by one sister... 145 00:14:34,684 --> 00:14:37,353 who's given birth to an illegitimate child. 146 00:14:37,437 --> 00:14:38,771 And Rose... 147 00:14:39,981 --> 00:14:43,317 talkin' about men separated from their wives. 148 00:14:43,359 --> 00:14:45,653 I was talkin' about Danny Bradley. 149 00:14:47,029 --> 00:14:48,823 He loves me, Kate! 150 00:14:48,864 --> 00:14:50,241 Love? 151 00:14:52,535 --> 00:14:54,996 Gander! Gander! 152 00:14:55,038 --> 00:14:57,665 That's what you're called in your classroom. 153 00:14:57,707 --> 00:14:59,834 You're not even a woman. You're called a gander. 154 00:15:02,128 --> 00:15:05,256 I am woman enough to know what modesty is. 155 00:15:07,091 --> 00:15:09,052 A woman's modesty is everything. 156 00:15:26,736 --> 00:15:28,654 Thank you, Okawa. 157 00:15:29,906 --> 00:15:31,866 Who is Okawa? 158 00:15:33,242 --> 00:15:34,660 You are. 159 00:15:40,582 --> 00:15:45,004 She's right, you know. Kate's right. I brought shame on this family. 160 00:15:45,087 --> 00:15:47,715 - Deep shame. - You brought Michael to this family. 161 00:15:47,798 --> 00:15:50,551 And he is not shame. You know that, as does Kate. 162 00:15:52,553 --> 00:15:54,471 What's wrong with Jack? 163 00:15:54,555 --> 00:15:57,724 - His nerves. - Oh, aye, nerves. 164 00:15:57,808 --> 00:15:59,768 We were so proud of him. 165 00:15:59,810 --> 00:16:03,773 To have a priest in the family was a great honor. Poor Jack. God help him. 166 00:16:07,484 --> 00:16:10,571 Maybe Michael will become a priest. 167 00:16:11,572 --> 00:16:12,990 Maybe. 168 00:16:15,992 --> 00:16:18,662 You could love Uganda, Maggie. 169 00:16:21,999 --> 00:16:24,293 As I lie myself down to sleep... 170 00:16:24,376 --> 00:16:26,962 I pray to God my soul to keep. 171 00:16:27,045 --> 00:16:29,589 If I should die before I wake... 172 00:16:29,673 --> 00:16:31,758 I pray to God my soul to take. 173 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,760 I think I've come home to die. 174 00:16:33,802 --> 00:16:36,597 Jesus, don't. We can't afford to bury ya. 175 00:16:40,225 --> 00:16:42,811 I'm glad you're home. 176 00:16:42,895 --> 00:16:44,938 Watch yourself. 177 00:16:44,980 --> 00:16:47,482 - Go to sleep. - Aye. 178 00:16:47,524 --> 00:16:50,068 Watch yourself. Go to sleep, Okawa. 179 00:16:50,151 --> 00:16:52,237 What does Okawa mean? 180 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,324 Okawa is my houseboy in Uganda. 181 00:16:55,407 --> 00:16:57,534 He is Okawa. 182 00:16:57,618 --> 00:17:00,746 Damn it. I thought it was Swahili for "gorgeous. " 183 00:17:53,214 --> 00:17:54,841 Am I called 'the gander"? 184 00:17:57,510 --> 00:17:59,345 No, Aunt Kate. 185 00:18:00,513 --> 00:18:02,973 Who calls me "'the gander"? 186 00:18:05,602 --> 00:18:07,312 The big fellas do. 187 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,860 And you let 'em. 188 00:18:19,365 --> 00:18:21,283 Why have you no friends? 189 00:18:25,413 --> 00:18:26,998 You're another gander. 190 00:18:28,207 --> 00:18:30,376 Aren't you, son? 191 00:18:38,092 --> 00:18:40,387 I've brought you this. I was saving it for your birth day... 192 00:18:40,428 --> 00:18:42,472 but you might as well have it now. 193 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,601 Do you know how it goes? 194 00:18:46,642 --> 00:18:49,061 Here. You pump it. 195 00:18:49,103 --> 00:18:50,813 Push it down. Push it. 196 00:18:50,896 --> 00:18:52,481 That's it. 197 00:19:00,907 --> 00:19:04,744 Sacred Heart of Jesus! I don't believe it. 198 00:19:04,785 --> 00:19:06,162 What's wrong? 199 00:19:08,455 --> 00:19:11,708 That's him. That's Christina's man! That's Gerry. 200 00:19:11,792 --> 00:19:13,252 It's Gerry Evans! 201 00:19:13,335 --> 00:19:15,588 He's not coming in this house. 202 00:19:15,630 --> 00:19:17,882 When are we gonna get a decent mirror to see ourselves in? 203 00:19:17,965 --> 00:19:23,095 - You can see enough to do you. - You're not going to meet that blaggard! 204 00:19:23,137 --> 00:19:25,139 I couldn't look that man in the face. 205 00:19:25,222 --> 00:19:26,598 I hate him. I hate him! 206 00:19:27,850 --> 00:19:29,893 Look at my hands shakin'. 207 00:19:31,445 --> 00:19:33,241 No, you're not... 208 00:19:33,276 --> 00:19:36,400 You're not shaking. You're perfectly calm. 209 00:19:36,484 --> 00:19:39,695 You're looking beautiful. And what you're gonna do is this: 210 00:19:39,778 --> 00:19:43,532 You'll meet him outside. Tell him that his son is healthy and happy. 211 00:19:43,615 --> 00:19:45,575 - Then you'll send him packing. - No. 212 00:19:45,659 --> 00:19:47,077 He can stay the night. 213 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,371 In the shed, outside. 214 00:19:49,454 --> 00:19:50,873 Alone. 215 00:19:58,505 --> 00:19:59,715 Come on. 216 00:20:32,998 --> 00:20:35,750 Oh, look at her. 217 00:20:46,428 --> 00:20:47,971 Hello, Chrissie. 218 00:20:49,181 --> 00:20:50,765 Hello, Gerry. 219 00:20:53,268 --> 00:20:55,603 How have you been over the past 18 months? 220 00:20:55,687 --> 00:20:59,190 Eighteen? Never. 221 00:21:00,067 --> 00:21:02,694 March, last year. March the sixth. 222 00:21:04,571 --> 00:21:06,490 Where does the time go? 223 00:21:09,701 --> 00:21:12,537 - Well, you're here now. - Here I am. 224 00:21:13,288 --> 00:21:14,539 Wonderful luck. 225 00:21:20,253 --> 00:21:21,671 Is that himself? 226 00:21:24,716 --> 00:21:27,385 - He's a big boy. - He's grown well. 227 00:21:27,427 --> 00:21:30,972 - Does he like school? - He doesn't say much. 228 00:21:31,055 --> 00:21:33,057 Like his Aunt Kate. 229 00:21:35,394 --> 00:21:36,895 Yes, indeed. 230 00:21:36,978 --> 00:21:39,939 Will someone please tell me what they have to say to each other? 231 00:21:40,023 --> 00:21:42,400 He's Michael's father. 232 00:21:42,484 --> 00:21:45,695 That's a responsibility never burdened Mr. Evans. 233 00:21:53,203 --> 00:21:57,207 A commercial traveler called in to Kate's school last Easter. 234 00:21:57,290 --> 00:21:59,834 Met you in Dublin. Had some stupid story... 235 00:21:59,918 --> 00:22:03,796 about you givin' dancing lessons up there. 236 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,798 He was right. 237 00:22:05,881 --> 00:22:08,843 - He was not. - Cross the old ticker. 238 00:22:08,926 --> 00:22:10,845 All last winter. 239 00:22:10,929 --> 00:22:13,223 Strictly ballroom. 240 00:22:13,306 --> 00:22:15,099 Millions of pupils. 241 00:22:15,141 --> 00:22:17,727 - Everybody wants to dance. - Millions of pupils? 242 00:22:17,810 --> 00:22:19,770 Fifty-three. I'm a liar. Fifty-one. 243 00:22:19,854 --> 00:22:23,858 When the good weather came, they all drifted away. 244 00:22:23,941 --> 00:22:26,110 You're the one should've been giving dance lessons. 245 00:22:26,193 --> 00:22:28,488 You were far better than me, remember? 246 00:22:30,448 --> 00:22:33,993 'Twas on the Isle of Capri that he found her 247 00:22:36,037 --> 00:22:39,373 Beneath the shade of an old walnut tree 248 00:22:40,666 --> 00:22:44,628 And, oh, how the flowers bloomed around her 249 00:22:44,670 --> 00:22:48,091 Where they met on the Isle of Capri 250 00:22:48,174 --> 00:22:50,885 All he could ever do was dance. 251 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:57,141 Her whole face alters when she's happy. 252 00:22:57,182 --> 00:23:00,394 Though he left with the tide in the morning 253 00:23:00,477 --> 00:23:03,606 Still his heart's in the Isle of Capri 254 00:23:08,027 --> 00:23:10,154 What brings you to these parts now? 255 00:23:10,237 --> 00:23:12,197 To say good-bye. 256 00:23:13,032 --> 00:23:15,659 Where are you heading for? 257 00:23:15,701 --> 00:23:18,620 - You'd like to know? - I would. 258 00:23:19,871 --> 00:23:22,124 Want a spin on this bike? 259 00:23:22,208 --> 00:23:23,876 - I might. - Get on. 260 00:23:27,671 --> 00:23:30,340 - See you soon, Michael. - Bye, son. 261 00:23:56,117 --> 00:23:58,285 Where are you going next? 262 00:23:58,369 --> 00:24:01,413 You'll never believe this. 263 00:24:01,497 --> 00:24:03,749 I'm gonna do a spot of fighting. 264 00:24:03,832 --> 00:24:07,544 - What do you know about fightin'? - I'm a Welshman. We're always fighting. 265 00:24:09,462 --> 00:24:11,423 You're as soft as butter. 266 00:24:13,592 --> 00:24:16,845 - I'm going off to Spain. - Spain? 267 00:24:16,929 --> 00:24:19,556 The International Brigade. I'm joining up. 268 00:24:19,598 --> 00:24:21,683 I'm gonna fight against Franco. 269 00:24:21,767 --> 00:24:24,894 There's a company leaves in a couple of weeks. 270 00:24:24,978 --> 00:24:27,313 I'm gonna fight for democracy. 271 00:24:27,397 --> 00:24:30,733 Democracy? Spain? What do you know about Spain? 272 00:24:30,817 --> 00:24:32,903 A little. 273 00:24:32,986 --> 00:24:34,863 Enough, maybe. 274 00:24:34,947 --> 00:24:39,576 - Why exactly are you going to Spain? - Because I want to do something. 275 00:24:41,453 --> 00:24:44,330 I want to do anything... with my life. 276 00:24:44,414 --> 00:24:46,332 I have to. 277 00:24:47,959 --> 00:24:49,920 Well, then do it. 278 00:24:52,839 --> 00:24:54,799 "'Then do it. " 279 00:25:00,013 --> 00:25:02,432 "Then do it!" 280 00:25:37,174 --> 00:25:39,135 - Morning, Miss Mundy. - Morning. 281 00:25:45,225 --> 00:25:46,768 Thank you, Austin. 282 00:25:46,851 --> 00:25:48,936 Thank you, Mrs. Mac. 283 00:25:54,608 --> 00:25:57,111 Mrs. McLoughlin. And how are you? 284 00:25:57,194 --> 00:26:01,074 I'm well. I've brought some more wool for Agnes and Rose. 285 00:26:01,157 --> 00:26:03,826 This might be the last batch I give 'em, God help us all. 286 00:26:03,910 --> 00:26:06,621 Dear me, Vera. What's wrong? 287 00:26:06,704 --> 00:26:08,789 Isn't Agnes the quickest knitter in Ballybeg? 288 00:26:08,873 --> 00:26:10,916 You've not heard the word? 289 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,336 There's a woolen factory opening up in Donegal Town, they say. 290 00:26:14,420 --> 00:26:16,381 It'll be all machine knittin' from now on. 291 00:26:16,423 --> 00:26:19,592 - Machines? A factory? - That's right. 292 00:26:19,676 --> 00:26:22,178 You're a lucky woman to have your teachin' job. 293 00:26:24,138 --> 00:26:27,349 There's our Sophia waving to you. You were her favorite teacher. 294 00:26:27,433 --> 00:26:30,185 That old bitch, the gander. 295 00:26:30,269 --> 00:26:32,312 Sophia always knew her own mind. 296 00:26:32,396 --> 00:26:34,274 Who are you tellin'? 297 00:26:34,357 --> 00:26:37,777 Didn't she walk into the house a week ago and told me she was gettin' married. 298 00:26:37,860 --> 00:26:41,530 Married? Well, she's barely 16. 299 00:26:41,614 --> 00:26:44,366 Married. And I'll let her. 300 00:26:44,408 --> 00:26:46,618 She'll need a man to keep her. 301 00:26:46,702 --> 00:26:48,620 I'll say nothin' to Agnes about the factory. 302 00:26:48,704 --> 00:26:50,872 - Good morning. - Good morning. 303 00:27:12,144 --> 00:27:14,730 - Two pounds of flour. - Thank you. 304 00:27:14,813 --> 00:27:16,774 I better not forget the cigarettes... 305 00:27:16,815 --> 00:27:19,193 or a certain sister of mine will not speak to me for a week. 306 00:27:19,276 --> 00:27:21,236 Maggie enjoys her wild Woodbine. 307 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,405 - Does she not? - She does indeed. 308 00:27:23,447 --> 00:27:26,241 But God forgive me, I do not think it's a nice habit in a woman. 309 00:27:26,283 --> 00:27:30,412 Harmless enough pleasure. Now, have you got everything? 310 00:27:30,454 --> 00:27:35,083 Sugar, salt, tapioca... I'm sorry, the tapioca's gone up a penny. 311 00:27:35,125 --> 00:27:37,919 That's hardly your fault. 312 00:27:37,961 --> 00:27:42,007 Your battery, that's come in from Letterkenny. 313 00:27:42,090 --> 00:27:45,427 Oh, yes. Not much good it'll do in that old set, though. 314 00:27:48,931 --> 00:27:51,767 Will you be going to the harvest dance this year? 315 00:27:52,851 --> 00:27:56,062 - I hardly think so at my age. - But you should. 316 00:27:56,146 --> 00:27:59,774 It'll be supreme this year. Supreme. 317 00:27:59,816 --> 00:28:01,776 Will it be? 318 00:28:04,238 --> 00:28:07,824 Will it really be supreme? Tea, soap, Indian meal, jelly. 319 00:28:07,908 --> 00:28:11,912 - How much do I owe you? - Two and six. 320 00:28:19,210 --> 00:28:21,171 Mr. Bradley. 321 00:28:21,213 --> 00:28:23,173 Miss Mundy. How are you? 322 00:28:23,215 --> 00:28:26,510 Very well. And how are you and yours? 323 00:28:26,593 --> 00:28:29,471 How is your wife? 324 00:28:29,512 --> 00:28:32,765 - I no longer have a wife. - I hadn't heard she passed away. 325 00:28:34,017 --> 00:28:35,977 She's gone away... to England. 326 00:28:36,060 --> 00:28:38,814 - You should have followed her there. - Ten Woodbine. 327 00:28:38,897 --> 00:28:41,108 All kinds of things can happen to a body in England. 328 00:28:41,191 --> 00:28:45,487 They're not respectable people there as we are in Ballybeg. 329 00:28:45,570 --> 00:28:48,948 Will your sisters be going to the dance? 330 00:28:49,032 --> 00:28:51,742 Agnes and Rose. Will they go? 331 00:28:55,372 --> 00:29:00,794 If you'll excuse me, I have a family and responsibilities to attend to. 332 00:29:04,505 --> 00:29:08,259 Will you be going yourself to the harvest dance? 333 00:29:08,342 --> 00:29:10,678 Will you be looking for a new wife? 334 00:29:10,761 --> 00:29:14,766 Do you know what you are? A dirty, cruel little bitch. 335 00:29:33,451 --> 00:29:34,994 Father Carlin. 336 00:29:35,078 --> 00:29:38,039 - Miss Mundy. - I'm so glad you asked to see me. 337 00:29:38,081 --> 00:29:40,875 Father Jack is waiting to meet up with you soon. 338 00:29:43,294 --> 00:29:45,379 I didn't ask to see you about your brother. 339 00:29:45,421 --> 00:29:48,967 Well, I was just wonderin' when you would call out to see him. 340 00:29:51,678 --> 00:29:55,681 - He's not well, I hear. - He's just grand, thank God. 341 00:29:55,765 --> 00:30:00,060 Good feeding, plenty of exercise, he'll be right as rain. 342 00:30:00,144 --> 00:30:03,814 The rain. Aye, that's what he needs. 343 00:30:05,149 --> 00:30:06,484 Rain? 344 00:30:06,567 --> 00:30:08,820 The sun in Africa, you know... 345 00:30:08,903 --> 00:30:11,530 it would affect anybody. 346 00:30:11,614 --> 00:30:14,700 He needs the rain. That'll heal him. 347 00:30:16,827 --> 00:30:20,080 - He's going to say Mass soon. - I don't think so. 348 00:30:21,623 --> 00:30:24,419 When he's fit to see people, I'll call out. 349 00:30:24,502 --> 00:30:28,089 He's fit to see anybody. 350 00:30:28,130 --> 00:30:30,174 - Jack is... - Not well. 351 00:30:30,257 --> 00:30:33,594 I know. I know everything about him. 352 00:30:33,635 --> 00:30:38,932 - There is nothin' to know. - I think there is. So do you. 353 00:30:41,602 --> 00:30:45,397 You're a bright enough woman. You must notice things. 354 00:30:47,316 --> 00:30:49,610 Haven't you noticed the numbers in the school are falling? 355 00:30:51,862 --> 00:30:54,823 - To be honest, I haven't. - Well, they have. 356 00:30:54,865 --> 00:30:57,743 They have. 357 00:30:57,827 --> 00:31:00,454 So I might need to let a teacher go. 358 00:31:00,538 --> 00:31:02,623 Of course, that could be all for the best. 359 00:31:04,124 --> 00:31:06,794 I'm sure you could do with the extra time... 360 00:31:06,877 --> 00:31:08,837 now you have Father Jack on your hands. 361 00:31:10,672 --> 00:31:12,632 Good-bye to you now. 362 00:31:12,674 --> 00:31:14,676 But I am a teacher. 363 00:31:14,718 --> 00:31:17,805 What'll I do if I stop teaching? 364 00:31:29,190 --> 00:31:31,151 What'll become of us? 365 00:31:45,665 --> 00:31:47,584 Good day to you, ma'am. 366 00:32:19,365 --> 00:32:21,701 That's a fine hat. 367 00:32:21,784 --> 00:32:24,829 It was a present from the District Commissioner. 368 00:32:24,912 --> 00:32:30,126 He's a stubborn man. He and I fight a lot, but I like him. 369 00:32:30,210 --> 00:32:33,171 He calls me "The Irish Outcast. " 370 00:32:33,254 --> 00:32:35,465 When I was leaving, he gave me a present... 371 00:32:35,548 --> 00:32:39,302 of the last governor's ceremonial hat. 372 00:32:39,385 --> 00:32:41,387 Well, you must show it to Michael. 373 00:32:41,470 --> 00:32:43,056 I will later. 374 00:33:10,458 --> 00:33:14,545 He's watching you. He's shy of you. 375 00:33:14,628 --> 00:33:17,006 He'll grow out of it. 376 00:33:17,089 --> 00:33:19,759 Are you gonna be here long enough to give him time to grow out of it? 377 00:33:27,642 --> 00:33:29,810 I'm gonna buy him a bike. 378 00:33:29,894 --> 00:33:32,271 You trying to break the child's heart? A bike's what he's always wanted. 379 00:33:32,313 --> 00:33:35,607 - I will buy him a bike. - Don't lie to him. 380 00:33:38,820 --> 00:33:41,030 Can I talk to you? 381 00:33:41,114 --> 00:33:45,576 I need to ask you a question. Will you answer me? 382 00:33:45,659 --> 00:33:49,955 I'll ask you anyway. What color do you like best? 383 00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:52,374 Black or blue? 384 00:33:54,168 --> 00:33:57,088 I need to know if I should buy you a black or a blue bike. 385 00:33:58,673 --> 00:34:00,132 Black! 386 00:34:08,974 --> 00:34:12,728 Does Mr. Evans ever wonder how Christina clothes and feeds Michael? 387 00:34:12,812 --> 00:34:16,148 Does he ask her? Does Mr. Evans care? 388 00:34:16,232 --> 00:34:18,817 Beasts of the field have more concern for their young than that creature has. 389 00:34:18,859 --> 00:34:22,821 Do you ever listen to yourself? 390 00:34:22,863 --> 00:34:25,324 You are such a damned, righteous bitch! 391 00:34:25,407 --> 00:34:27,117 And his name is Gerry. 392 00:34:34,208 --> 00:34:37,252 Don't I know his name is Gerry. 393 00:34:37,336 --> 00:34:41,757 What am I calling him, Saint Patrick? What was that all about? 394 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,467 Who's to say? 395 00:34:47,346 --> 00:34:51,517 'Twas on the Isle of Capri that he found her 396 00:34:51,558 --> 00:34:54,978 Beneath the shade of the old walnut tree 397 00:34:55,062 --> 00:35:00,192 Oh, I can still see the flowers blooming 'round her 398 00:35:00,233 --> 00:35:03,153 As they met on the Isle of Capri 399 00:35:03,236 --> 00:35:07,032 If you knew your prayers as well as you knew those old pagan songs... 400 00:35:10,577 --> 00:35:13,205 I am a righteous bitch, aren't I? 401 00:35:14,998 --> 00:35:18,710 She was as sweet as a rose at the dawning 402 00:35:18,793 --> 00:35:22,548 But somehow fate hadn't meant it to be 403 00:35:22,631 --> 00:35:26,301 And as he sailed with the tide in the morning 404 00:35:26,385 --> 00:35:30,347 Still his heart's in the Isle of Capri 405 00:35:30,430 --> 00:35:34,351 - What have you got to sing about? - Just practicing the fox-trot. 406 00:35:34,434 --> 00:35:36,352 - Where is Gerry? - He's with Michael. 407 00:35:36,436 --> 00:35:37,729 What are they doing? 408 00:35:37,770 --> 00:35:39,732 His daddy's giving him a ride on his motorbike. 409 00:35:39,773 --> 00:35:40,858 Motorbike! 410 00:35:40,941 --> 00:35:43,360 Motor... He'll kill the child! 411 00:35:43,443 --> 00:35:45,904 He'll be all right. He's with his daddy. 412 00:36:01,044 --> 00:36:03,588 What's wrong? Don't you like your daddy to kiss you? 413 00:36:03,672 --> 00:36:06,174 - Are you really my daddy? - You know I am. 414 00:36:06,257 --> 00:36:08,843 You've seen me five or six times. Don't you remember? 415 00:36:08,927 --> 00:36:11,846 - I've never seen you before this week. - Yes, you have. 416 00:36:11,929 --> 00:36:13,681 Five or six times. You've forgotten. 417 00:36:13,764 --> 00:36:15,600 Maybe so. 418 00:36:16,977 --> 00:36:18,937 Look at those strange animals over there. 419 00:36:18,979 --> 00:36:20,730 What's strange about them? 420 00:36:20,814 --> 00:36:22,732 They've got horns in the middle of their foreheads. 421 00:36:22,816 --> 00:36:24,901 Do you think they might be unicorns? 422 00:36:24,984 --> 00:36:28,946 Unicorns are horses. Those are sheep. And there's no horns there. 423 00:36:29,030 --> 00:36:32,534 Can we go home now? I'm hungry. 424 00:36:32,617 --> 00:36:34,202 All right. 425 00:36:38,373 --> 00:36:41,417 - What was that for? - I don't know. 426 00:37:05,024 --> 00:37:06,650 I do beg your pardon. 427 00:37:06,693 --> 00:37:09,571 My... My mind was... 428 00:37:13,116 --> 00:37:17,119 - What are those? - They're roses. Flowers. 429 00:37:17,203 --> 00:37:19,205 They won't bite ya. They're just flowers. 430 00:37:19,288 --> 00:37:21,081 Yes, flowers. 431 00:37:21,165 --> 00:37:23,083 We'll put some in your room for you with a card... 432 00:37:23,167 --> 00:37:25,670 under them saying "roses" so you know what they are. 433 00:37:25,753 --> 00:37:27,672 Have you taken your medicine yet? 434 00:37:28,798 --> 00:37:31,175 You're supposed to take it three times a day, you know that. 435 00:37:32,093 --> 00:37:35,179 One of our priests took too much quinine. 436 00:37:35,262 --> 00:37:39,308 He was addicted. He almost died. 437 00:37:39,391 --> 00:37:42,520 The local medicine man made him better. 438 00:37:44,063 --> 00:37:46,941 There's a strange white bird on my windowsill. 439 00:37:47,024 --> 00:37:48,526 That's Rosie's pet rooster. 440 00:37:48,609 --> 00:37:51,654 - Keep away from that thing. - One day I'm gonna wring its neck. 441 00:37:51,737 --> 00:37:55,157 In Africa, when we want to please spirits... 442 00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:58,744 we kill a rooster or a small goat. 443 00:37:58,827 --> 00:38:01,706 What's the word for that called? 444 00:38:03,374 --> 00:38:04,792 A ritual... 445 00:38:04,875 --> 00:38:09,880 No, ceremony. That's the word I was searching for. 446 00:38:09,963 --> 00:38:12,049 I'm glad I got that. 447 00:38:18,598 --> 00:38:20,808 Spirits, medicine men, ritual sacrifices. 448 00:38:22,393 --> 00:38:24,645 His head's completely turned. 449 00:38:30,233 --> 00:38:32,944 Here's a special bit for you. 450 00:38:35,781 --> 00:38:38,492 Are youse not hungry? 451 00:38:44,289 --> 00:38:47,042 - Is Gerry eatin' with us? - He is, I'm sure. 452 00:38:47,125 --> 00:38:50,420 We've only a few eggs left and some apples. 453 00:38:50,462 --> 00:38:52,756 We'll manage. 454 00:38:54,508 --> 00:38:56,427 You can smell tea being made a mile away. 455 00:38:56,468 --> 00:38:59,721 I can indeed. I saw Michael and Gerry on the motorbike. 456 00:38:59,805 --> 00:39:01,723 I'm gonna ask Gerry to give me a run on it. 457 00:39:01,807 --> 00:39:04,226 You'll do no such thing. And why aren't they home yet? 458 00:39:04,309 --> 00:39:06,728 They'll be safe. 459 00:39:06,811 --> 00:39:09,439 Is Gerry all right staying in the barn? 460 00:39:09,522 --> 00:39:12,943 - He's safe staying there. - Nobody's safe these days. 461 00:39:12,985 --> 00:39:14,778 Somebody's landed Austin Morgan. 462 00:39:14,861 --> 00:39:16,905 He's getting married next month. 463 00:39:16,988 --> 00:39:20,742 Our Kate was very mad about Austin Morgan. Look at her. 464 00:39:20,825 --> 00:39:22,952 She's blushin'. 465 00:39:22,994 --> 00:39:25,538 - That's enough. - And Sofia McLoughlin. 466 00:39:25,622 --> 00:39:27,290 She's to be married. 467 00:39:27,332 --> 00:39:30,252 That'll put an end to her dancin' days. 468 00:39:30,335 --> 00:39:33,922 The other day she had the cheek to ask if I were going to the harvest dance. 469 00:39:34,005 --> 00:39:36,257 She said it would be supreme this year. 470 00:39:37,384 --> 00:39:39,802 Supreme. Think I'm gettin' corns on this foot. 471 00:39:39,886 --> 00:39:43,431 Hope to God I don't end up crippled like poor Mother, may she rest in peace. 472 00:39:44,557 --> 00:39:46,810 Wouldn't it be a good one if we all went? 473 00:39:46,852 --> 00:39:49,229 - Went where? - To the harvest dance. 474 00:39:49,312 --> 00:39:52,982 All dressed up. I think we should all go. 475 00:39:53,024 --> 00:39:54,776 Have you no idea what it will be like? 476 00:39:54,859 --> 00:39:58,154 Crawling with cheeky young brats that I taught years ago. 477 00:39:58,196 --> 00:39:59,280 I'm game. 478 00:39:59,363 --> 00:40:02,743 - You know how I love dancing. - You have an eight-year-old child. 479 00:40:02,826 --> 00:40:05,954 - Have you forgotten that? - You can wear that green dress of mine. 480 00:40:06,037 --> 00:40:08,998 You've the figure for it, and it brings out the color of your eyes. 481 00:40:09,082 --> 00:40:13,669 And you look great in that cotton dress you got for confirmation last year. 482 00:40:13,711 --> 00:40:16,672 You're beautiful in it. 483 00:40:16,714 --> 00:40:21,344 This is silly talk. We can't. How can we? 484 00:40:21,386 --> 00:40:23,013 Will you go with us? 485 00:40:23,096 --> 00:40:27,642 - Will Maggie what? Try and stop me. - Oh, God, Agnes. What do you think? 486 00:40:27,725 --> 00:40:30,686 - We're going! - We're off. We're away! 487 00:40:30,770 --> 00:40:33,314 - It cost four and six to get in. - I've five pounds saved. 488 00:40:33,397 --> 00:40:35,316 I'll take you. I'll take us all. 489 00:40:35,399 --> 00:40:39,237 How many years has it been since we were at a dance in the village? 490 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,698 And I don't care how young they are. 491 00:40:41,781 --> 00:40:45,827 How drunk and dirty and sweaty they are. I want to dance. 492 00:40:45,910 --> 00:40:49,705 It's the festival of Lughnasa. I want to dance. 493 00:40:49,747 --> 00:40:52,458 I know. I know. 494 00:40:52,541 --> 00:40:55,169 It's settled. We're going. 495 00:40:55,253 --> 00:40:56,671 Like we used to. 496 00:40:57,672 --> 00:41:00,174 I love you, Aggie. I love you. 497 00:41:01,008 --> 00:41:03,719 Will you come to Abyssinia Will you come 498 00:41:03,803 --> 00:41:05,513 Bring your own cup and a saucer and a bun 499 00:41:05,596 --> 00:41:08,098 Mussolini will be there with his airplanes in the air 500 00:41:08,182 --> 00:41:10,184 Will you come to Abyssinia Will you come 501 00:41:10,267 --> 00:41:15,565 We're going nowhere. Look at yourselves, will ya? 502 00:41:15,606 --> 00:41:18,067 Mature women... dancing? 503 00:41:19,860 --> 00:41:21,779 What's come over you all? 504 00:41:25,949 --> 00:41:28,076 We're going to no harvest dance. 505 00:41:35,543 --> 00:41:40,214 And you were going to pay for us all out of five pounds you saved? 506 00:41:40,297 --> 00:41:43,050 I don't see any of that being offered up for the housekeeping. 507 00:41:43,133 --> 00:41:45,052 That's more than I have! 508 00:41:46,136 --> 00:41:48,097 This isn't your classroom. 509 00:41:48,139 --> 00:41:50,182 Maybe I should start knittin' gloves. 510 00:41:51,767 --> 00:41:55,771 I wash every stitch of clothes you wear. 511 00:41:55,854 --> 00:41:57,773 I polish your shoes. 512 00:41:57,856 --> 00:42:01,860 I make your bed. We both do, Rose and I! 513 00:42:01,943 --> 00:42:04,488 Paint the house, sweep the chimney... 514 00:42:04,571 --> 00:42:07,283 cut the grass, save the turf. 515 00:42:07,366 --> 00:42:11,829 What you have here are two unpaid servants. 516 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,791 And if you will now keep your mouth shut... 517 00:42:15,832 --> 00:42:18,627 this unpaid servant will make your tea. 518 00:42:45,028 --> 00:42:47,281 Mr. Evans'll be off again... 519 00:42:47,364 --> 00:42:49,282 for another 12 months. 520 00:42:50,742 --> 00:42:52,994 Christina will sob and lament in the middle of the night. 521 00:42:53,078 --> 00:42:56,122 I don't think I could go through another winter like that. 522 00:42:57,874 --> 00:43:00,502 You work hard at your job. You try to keep the home together. 523 00:43:00,586 --> 00:43:03,839 Suddenly, you realize the cracks are appearing everywhere. 524 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,926 - It's all about to collapse. - Nothing's about to collapse. 525 00:43:08,009 --> 00:43:10,011 But what I'm most worried about is Rose. 526 00:43:10,095 --> 00:43:12,805 If I lose my job, if this house is broken up... 527 00:43:12,889 --> 00:43:14,891 what'll become of our Rosie? 528 00:43:19,396 --> 00:43:20,897 Evening, ladies. 529 00:43:24,275 --> 00:43:27,362 Look at me, everybody, on my dad's motorbike! 530 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:54,514 Okawa, I'm coming home. 531 00:43:56,349 --> 00:43:58,476 I'm coming home. 532 00:44:00,186 --> 00:44:02,063 You're dreamin'. 533 00:44:05,066 --> 00:44:07,860 Come. We'll go for our walk now. 534 00:44:22,958 --> 00:44:25,961 What were you doing with the wooden sticks, Uncle Jack? 535 00:44:33,803 --> 00:44:36,597 - Anybody want more tea? - I'm your man. 536 00:44:37,682 --> 00:44:39,725 I was talking to Obi... 537 00:44:39,808 --> 00:44:42,227 the Great Goddess of the Earth. 538 00:44:42,311 --> 00:44:44,105 Is she now? 539 00:44:44,189 --> 00:44:47,942 At this time of year... harvesttime in Africa... 540 00:44:47,984 --> 00:44:50,945 we celebrate the festival of the New Yam... 541 00:44:50,987 --> 00:44:52,947 and the festival of the Sweet Casava. 542 00:44:52,988 --> 00:44:56,784 They're both dedicated to Obi, the Great Goddess of the Earth. 543 00:44:56,867 --> 00:44:58,410 Is there a Saint Obi? 544 00:44:58,494 --> 00:45:00,579 If there is, she's not in my prayer book. 545 00:45:00,662 --> 00:45:02,290 How do you celebrate it? 546 00:45:02,373 --> 00:45:06,168 Well, we cut... 547 00:45:06,252 --> 00:45:08,629 cut and anoint... 548 00:45:08,671 --> 00:45:11,966 the new yam and the new casava. 549 00:45:12,007 --> 00:45:15,094 And then we pass the bowl around the table... 550 00:45:15,177 --> 00:45:17,095 and each takes one. 551 00:45:18,555 --> 00:45:21,767 We light fires and we paint our faces. 552 00:45:21,851 --> 00:45:25,479 And then we sing and drink palm wine. 553 00:45:27,314 --> 00:45:30,150 And we dance, and we dance, and we dance. 554 00:45:30,192 --> 00:45:34,154 Men, women and children, and even lepers with limbs missing. 555 00:45:34,237 --> 00:45:38,701 For days on end, dancing. You lose all sense of time. 556 00:45:38,784 --> 00:45:40,911 A clatter of lepers doing the Military Two-Step. 557 00:45:40,995 --> 00:45:43,747 - God forgive you. - They have a great capacity... 558 00:45:43,831 --> 00:45:45,958 for fun and laughing. 559 00:45:46,041 --> 00:45:48,543 You'd love them. You must come back with me. 560 00:45:48,627 --> 00:45:51,129 I don't think I'd be too keen on the yams. 561 00:45:51,213 --> 00:45:53,965 Think I'd miss the old spud. 562 00:45:54,050 --> 00:45:57,511 These festivals, they're not Christian ceremonies, are they? 563 00:46:00,014 --> 00:46:02,975 The Ryangans are faithful to their own religion. 564 00:46:05,185 --> 00:46:08,063 Will you say Mass soon? 565 00:46:08,146 --> 00:46:10,065 In the house, maybe? 566 00:46:10,148 --> 00:46:13,235 I will, yes. Monday, maybe. 567 00:46:19,741 --> 00:46:23,995 - Shall I put the wireless on? - Marconi's in one of his moods. 568 00:46:24,079 --> 00:46:26,873 You might have a look at the aerial one of these days. 569 00:46:26,915 --> 00:46:29,210 Bit of music would do us all nicely. 570 00:46:29,251 --> 00:46:32,629 No. We must all be worn out. 571 00:46:35,716 --> 00:46:36,883 Good night. 572 00:46:36,925 --> 00:46:38,510 Good night, all. 573 00:46:40,095 --> 00:46:42,180 Can I stay with Daddy in the barn? 574 00:46:45,475 --> 00:46:47,186 Please, Mum, I want to. 575 00:46:47,269 --> 00:46:51,148 Tonight, we will all sleep in our own beds. 576 00:46:51,231 --> 00:46:53,567 And that is final. 577 00:46:55,944 --> 00:46:57,862 I'll see you in the morning. 578 00:47:04,369 --> 00:47:06,997 Come on. I'll put you to your bed. 579 00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,541 I'll be in to read to you in five minutes. 580 00:47:09,624 --> 00:47:14,254 No. He'll go straight to sleep tonight. And that too is final. 581 00:47:35,691 --> 00:47:39,863 Gypsy, play your violin 582 00:47:39,946 --> 00:47:42,907 The moon is high above 583 00:47:42,991 --> 00:47:47,287 I'll fly to you on silver wings 584 00:47:47,328 --> 00:47:50,790 The serenade I love 585 00:48:44,802 --> 00:48:46,512 What's the matter? 586 00:48:50,266 --> 00:48:52,185 Do you ever want to go away? 587 00:48:53,895 --> 00:48:54,979 Why? 588 00:48:55,062 --> 00:48:57,189 Just wanted away? 589 00:48:58,607 --> 00:49:00,526 Danny Bradley's asked me to go away. 590 00:49:02,903 --> 00:49:04,780 To America. 591 00:49:04,863 --> 00:49:07,032 Danny Bradley is no good for you. 592 00:49:08,201 --> 00:49:12,371 He wants to take me to a picnic, out at Lough Anna. Look... 593 00:49:14,582 --> 00:49:16,542 what he gave me. 594 00:49:28,095 --> 00:49:30,556 I haven't worn it yet. 595 00:49:30,639 --> 00:49:34,726 I'm keeping it for when we go out on the boat. 596 00:49:34,810 --> 00:49:39,064 You're not going. Promise me you're not. 597 00:49:41,775 --> 00:49:43,694 Do you hear me? 598 00:49:46,447 --> 00:49:48,240 I hear ya. 599 00:49:49,992 --> 00:49:54,579 I love you. I love you more than chocolate biscuits. 600 00:49:56,289 --> 00:49:58,249 I love you too. 601 00:50:07,718 --> 00:50:11,721 If you ever do go away, you'll take me with you, won't you? 602 00:50:11,805 --> 00:50:14,808 I promise. 603 00:50:14,891 --> 00:50:16,893 But it's to be our secret. 604 00:50:16,976 --> 00:50:18,437 Promise? 605 00:51:04,565 --> 00:51:07,944 That lovely summer I thought would never end. 606 00:51:09,195 --> 00:51:11,907 We laughed and played to our heart's content. 607 00:51:12,991 --> 00:51:16,703 And I was king of the castle, surrounded by all who loved me. 608 00:51:17,787 --> 00:51:19,789 Come on, then. Catch. 609 00:51:46,941 --> 00:51:48,985 Jesus, look at me. Look at the cut of me. 610 00:51:49,068 --> 00:51:51,529 I thought my hair was lovely. It's like a whin bush. 611 00:51:51,571 --> 00:51:55,116 - You were lovely. - God forgive you for mocking. 612 00:51:58,244 --> 00:52:00,996 - Who's that? - Curly McDaid, God rest him. 613 00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,166 Curly? He hasn't a hair on his head. 614 00:52:03,249 --> 00:52:05,877 Bald at 17. That's why we called him Curly. 615 00:52:06,878 --> 00:52:09,630 Your sister could tell you a thing or two about him. 616 00:52:09,714 --> 00:52:12,300 - Tell all. - My lips are sealed. 617 00:52:12,383 --> 00:52:15,219 Mine are not. He had a few wild notions about our Kate. 618 00:52:15,302 --> 00:52:19,556 I had no more interest in Curly McDaid than the man in the moon. 619 00:52:19,598 --> 00:52:23,728 - He was fair mad about her. - If we're talking about wild notions... 620 00:52:25,563 --> 00:52:27,607 What about him? 621 00:52:27,690 --> 00:52:29,733 Brian McGuinness. 622 00:52:29,817 --> 00:52:33,112 - He's gorgeous. - Your sister thought so too. 623 00:52:33,195 --> 00:52:37,199 He was a bit like Gerry. The loveliest dancer. 624 00:52:38,451 --> 00:52:40,411 Do you mind the time you were robbed? 625 00:52:40,453 --> 00:52:43,748 - That dance competition? - You were there. 626 00:52:43,789 --> 00:52:47,918 I do remember that night. They had a waltz competition. 627 00:52:48,002 --> 00:52:50,504 I was looking down at Curly McDaid's bald head. 628 00:52:50,587 --> 00:52:54,383 But Maggie and Brian were so beautiful. 629 00:52:54,466 --> 00:52:56,677 Of course, they gave the cup to the two old ones. 630 00:52:56,761 --> 00:52:59,013 You should have won, you and Brian. 631 00:53:00,681 --> 00:53:04,101 - What happened to him? - Brian went to Australia. 632 00:53:05,310 --> 00:53:09,398 He wrote. I answered. Australia's far away. 633 00:53:09,481 --> 00:53:11,399 The way things go. 634 00:53:11,483 --> 00:53:15,112 So that's that. 635 00:53:15,154 --> 00:53:17,948 Will somebody give us a song? 636 00:53:18,032 --> 00:53:21,952 Rose Mundy, I call on you. Down By The Salley Gardens. " 637 00:53:24,830 --> 00:53:30,794 Down by the Salley Gardens 638 00:53:30,877 --> 00:53:36,592 My love and I did meet 639 00:53:36,633 --> 00:53:42,606 She passed the Salley Gardens 640 00:53:42,848 --> 00:53:47,936 With little snow-white feet 641 00:53:48,019 --> 00:53:53,951 She bid me take love easy 642 00:53:54,193 --> 00:53:59,364 As the leaves grow on a tree 643 00:53:59,447 --> 00:54:05,395 But I being young and foolish 644 00:54:05,578 --> 00:54:10,959 With her could not agree 645 00:54:11,043 --> 00:54:16,840 In a field down by the river 646 00:54:16,881 --> 00:54:22,178 My love and I did stand 647 00:54:22,220 --> 00:54:27,809 And on my leaning shoulder 648 00:54:27,851 --> 00:54:32,731 She laid her snow-white hand 649 00:54:32,814 --> 00:54:38,569 She bid me take life easy 650 00:54:38,653 --> 00:54:42,949 As the grass grows on the weir 651 00:54:43,033 --> 00:54:48,956 But I was young and foolish 652 00:54:49,539 --> 00:54:54,460 And now I'm full of tear 653 00:55:20,244 --> 00:55:22,094 Good morning. 654 00:55:22,157 --> 00:55:25,899 - Do you fancy a stroll by the river? - I'll be right after you. 655 00:55:37,378 --> 00:55:38,755 Where's your mammy? 656 00:55:38,838 --> 00:55:42,341 She's not up yet. She's wild tired. 657 00:55:44,218 --> 00:55:46,220 Are you getting something ready for school? 658 00:55:46,303 --> 00:55:48,097 I'm not listenin'. 659 00:55:49,598 --> 00:55:52,977 Gypsy, play your violin 660 00:55:53,061 --> 00:55:55,730 The moon is high above 661 00:55:55,772 --> 00:55:58,858 I'll fly to you on silver wings 662 00:55:58,941 --> 00:56:00,609 That serenade our love 663 00:56:00,693 --> 00:56:03,237 Look what you've made me do. You've ruined my letter. 664 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,366 Whoever you're writing to, he'd need to be smart to read that scrawl. 665 00:56:07,449 --> 00:56:08,784 Santa Claus. 666 00:56:09,869 --> 00:56:12,747 In August? At the feast of Lughnasa? 667 00:56:12,789 --> 00:56:14,749 Nothing like gettin' him before the rush. 668 00:56:16,125 --> 00:56:18,544 - What are you asking for? - A bell. 669 00:56:18,627 --> 00:56:20,963 - A bell? - For my bicycle. 670 00:56:21,005 --> 00:56:22,381 Bicycle? 671 00:56:22,464 --> 00:56:25,217 The one my daddy's buying me in Kilkenny. 672 00:56:25,300 --> 00:56:28,054 He promised me. 673 00:56:28,137 --> 00:56:31,515 Well, if he promised you, aren't you the lucky boy? 674 00:56:33,142 --> 00:56:35,811 Away and write to Santa Claus some other time. Go on. 675 00:56:35,853 --> 00:56:40,315 A day like today, you should be running about the fields like a young calf. 676 00:56:40,399 --> 00:56:43,860 I'm not a calf. I'm Michael, Michael Evans. 677 00:57:14,057 --> 00:57:16,434 That's a fine hat. 678 00:57:16,518 --> 00:57:18,687 Your own is very impressive as well. 679 00:57:18,770 --> 00:57:21,565 We must do a swap before I go back to Africa. 680 00:57:21,649 --> 00:57:24,526 - You're going back? - I may. Soon. 681 00:57:29,197 --> 00:57:32,534 - God, I enjoyed that sleep. - Aren't you the lucky one? 682 00:57:35,036 --> 00:57:36,496 Where's Michael? 683 00:57:36,579 --> 00:57:40,375 Outside, dreaming he's on his new bicycle. 684 00:57:41,460 --> 00:57:43,378 You never know. Gerry might buy it. 685 00:57:44,921 --> 00:57:47,507 It's a good thing Michael is blessed with a great imagination. 686 00:57:49,175 --> 00:57:51,970 - Is there water boiling for tea? - There will be. 687 00:57:52,053 --> 00:57:54,765 And soda bread. If Agnes and Rose... 688 00:57:54,848 --> 00:57:57,142 have luck with the blackberries, we should have some beautiful jam. 689 00:57:58,101 --> 00:58:00,353 - They're pickin' blackberries? - They are. 690 00:58:00,437 --> 00:58:03,148 Rose in her Sunday best for some reason. 691 00:58:09,070 --> 00:58:12,073 - Did you hear what I said to Maggie? - I did. 692 00:58:14,034 --> 00:58:18,205 She said, '"Well, you're a fine lady to go out pickin' blackberries. " 693 00:58:18,997 --> 00:58:22,750 And you said, "I'm some toff, Maggie. I'm some toff. " 694 00:58:24,002 --> 00:58:27,755 Well, stop bein' such a toff and give me a hand. 695 00:58:27,797 --> 00:58:29,090 All right. 696 00:58:33,637 --> 00:58:35,597 Is that all the sympathy I get? 697 00:58:35,639 --> 00:58:37,724 Now pull me out. 698 00:58:40,643 --> 00:58:43,729 Look at me hands, all scrabbed with briars. 699 00:59:02,998 --> 00:59:05,001 What's that? 700 00:59:05,085 --> 00:59:08,129 It's a church bell, I think. You should know. 701 00:59:08,213 --> 00:59:10,215 Yes, I should. 702 00:59:11,132 --> 00:59:13,342 Now, what's our direction? 703 00:59:13,426 --> 00:59:17,888 I want to know exactly where I'm going, then Kate won't have to nag. 704 00:59:17,972 --> 00:59:21,767 - Nag. That's not a word, is it? - Nag? Yes. To keep on at somebody. 705 00:59:21,850 --> 00:59:25,813 Oh, good. Nag. My English is coming back. 706 00:59:25,897 --> 00:59:27,815 - Do you speak Spanish? - Spanish? 707 00:59:27,899 --> 00:59:31,319 - For Spain. - No. Not a word. 708 00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,488 I can ride a motorbike. That'll be enough to get me signed on. 709 00:59:35,990 --> 00:59:37,491 I take it you don't approve. 710 00:59:37,533 --> 00:59:39,660 Why? 711 00:59:39,743 --> 00:59:43,498 I'm going to fight against Franco, the Catholic Church and all that. 712 00:59:43,539 --> 00:59:46,000 The Catholic Church. 713 00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:47,960 - Are they for Franco? - Yes. 714 00:59:48,002 --> 00:59:50,129 They would be. 715 00:59:50,212 --> 00:59:52,172 You're sharper than you seem. 716 00:59:52,214 --> 00:59:54,299 Am I? 717 00:59:54,341 --> 00:59:58,471 Those church bells? Were they ringing tor a wedding? 718 00:59:58,513 --> 01:00:01,933 Will they ever ring for you and Christina? 719 01:00:04,894 --> 01:00:06,854 Good. 720 01:00:06,896 --> 01:00:10,482 Better to leave her single than to leave her married. 721 01:00:30,210 --> 01:00:33,089 I've a wild pain in my stomach, and my head's splittin'. 722 01:00:33,172 --> 01:00:34,632 That's hit you very sudden. 723 01:00:36,801 --> 01:00:39,887 Must be that hot sun. 724 01:00:39,970 --> 01:00:42,473 Maybe you should go home and have a wee rest. 725 01:00:42,556 --> 01:00:45,308 Aye. I think I will. 726 01:00:47,394 --> 01:00:50,606 - Go straight home. - I will! Aye. 727 01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:35,233 Rosebud. 728 01:01:38,069 --> 01:01:40,989 You'll never go away, will ya? 729 01:01:46,995 --> 01:01:49,039 Did you bring anything to eat? 730 01:01:49,122 --> 01:01:52,208 You said we'd have a picnic, and I could eat a horse. 731 01:02:01,009 --> 01:02:03,512 Chocolate biscuits. 732 01:02:03,595 --> 01:02:05,514 The very boys. 733 01:02:20,570 --> 01:02:22,322 I don't know why I'm goin' to Spain. 734 01:02:23,323 --> 01:02:25,783 Everybody says it'll be over by Christmas. 735 01:02:25,825 --> 01:02:28,619 They said the Great War would be over by Christmas. 736 01:02:28,661 --> 01:02:32,790 They say that about all wars. Never are though. 737 01:02:32,832 --> 01:02:35,334 It's for the cause. 738 01:02:36,628 --> 01:02:39,339 There's bound to be something right about the cause. 739 01:02:40,381 --> 01:02:43,885 It's somewhere to go. Spain. 740 01:02:43,968 --> 01:02:45,261 Isn't it? 741 01:02:50,850 --> 01:02:53,937 There's Agnes over there. 742 01:03:07,616 --> 01:03:09,868 You're an eejit of a man, Gerry Evans. 743 01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:17,668 There now. You're even more beautiful. 744 01:03:17,710 --> 01:03:19,503 A right glamour girl. 745 01:03:20,713 --> 01:03:24,258 Pretty milkmaid, put down your pails... 746 01:03:24,341 --> 01:03:26,301 and dance with me. 747 01:03:26,385 --> 01:03:29,806 - Would you have a bit of sense? - Dance with me, please. Come on. 748 01:03:29,889 --> 01:03:31,057 Give me your hand. 749 01:03:35,227 --> 01:03:40,566 In olden days a glimpse of stocking 750 01:03:40,649 --> 01:03:43,193 Was looked at as something shocking 751 01:03:43,277 --> 01:03:45,529 And heaven knows 752 01:03:46,447 --> 01:03:48,699 Anything goes 753 01:03:49,742 --> 01:03:53,621 Good authors too who once knew better words 754 01:03:53,704 --> 01:03:58,250 Now only use four-letter words writing prose 755 01:03:58,333 --> 01:04:00,794 Anything goes 756 01:04:25,444 --> 01:04:28,405 But I know you're not responsible for Gerry's decisions... 757 01:04:28,447 --> 01:04:30,991 but I just feel it would be on my consciousness if I didn't tell ya... 758 01:04:31,074 --> 01:04:35,245 how strongly I disapprove of this whole International Brigade caper in Spain. 759 01:04:35,287 --> 01:04:36,371 Would it? 760 01:04:36,454 --> 01:04:40,084 Its a sorry day in Ireland when we send men off to fight for godless Communism. 761 01:04:40,167 --> 01:04:42,586 And I know he would say it's for democracy. 762 01:04:42,628 --> 01:04:44,129 - Would he? - I'm not going to argue. 763 01:04:44,171 --> 01:04:47,257 - I just want to clear my conscience. - Now you've cleared it. 764 01:04:48,508 --> 01:04:49,968 Good for you. 765 01:04:54,180 --> 01:04:56,141 Did you enjoy them biscuits, Rose? 766 01:04:56,182 --> 01:04:58,143 I did, Danny. Thank you. 767 01:04:59,353 --> 01:05:01,313 Is that all I'm going to get? 768 01:05:02,648 --> 01:05:04,608 It is, yes. 769 01:05:06,735 --> 01:05:10,071 When my wife left me, I came out here to Lough Anna. 770 01:05:10,155 --> 01:05:12,282 To go out in the boat? 771 01:05:12,323 --> 01:05:14,952 No. To the water. 772 01:05:15,035 --> 01:05:16,745 To throw myself in. 773 01:05:18,163 --> 01:05:20,499 But I didn't. 774 01:05:24,210 --> 01:05:27,297 There's a dance tonight in the back hills. Will you come with me? 775 01:05:31,593 --> 01:05:34,638 I have to go home. They'll be worried. 776 01:05:37,682 --> 01:05:39,684 Are you worried? 777 01:05:46,107 --> 01:05:47,775 Are you? 778 01:05:56,117 --> 01:05:57,869 Will you come with me to the dance tonight? 779 01:05:57,911 --> 01:06:01,205 Yes, I will. Please, will you stop this? 780 01:06:08,547 --> 01:06:10,465 I'll get back to dry land. 781 01:06:12,717 --> 01:06:15,178 And you won't leave me. 782 01:06:16,262 --> 01:06:17,555 You won't. 783 01:06:31,235 --> 01:06:33,196 Is that a purple stain on your gansey? 784 01:06:33,237 --> 01:06:36,907 I fell into a bush. Rosie nearly died laughin' at me. 785 01:06:36,949 --> 01:06:39,994 How is she now? Is she still in bed? 786 01:06:40,077 --> 01:06:41,745 Bed? 787 01:06:41,829 --> 01:06:45,083 She's here, isn't she? She left me and went home to lie down. 788 01:06:45,166 --> 01:06:47,919 She said she wasn't feeling well. 789 01:06:54,842 --> 01:06:56,343 Have you seen Rose? 790 01:07:01,766 --> 01:07:03,434 When did she leave you? 791 01:07:03,476 --> 01:07:06,812 Three hours ago. She said she felt out of sorts. 792 01:07:06,896 --> 01:07:08,814 And she set off on her own to come home? 793 01:07:08,898 --> 01:07:10,399 That's what she said. 794 01:07:10,441 --> 01:07:13,235 Start at the beginning, Agnes. What exactly happened? 795 01:07:13,277 --> 01:07:16,363 Nothing happened. Nothing at all. 796 01:07:16,446 --> 01:07:20,785 We walked to the bushes and out of the blue she said... 797 01:07:20,827 --> 01:07:23,162 - I've forgotten what she said. - Think. 798 01:07:23,245 --> 01:07:26,165 She said something about the warm sun... 799 01:07:26,248 --> 01:07:28,709 and she had a sore head and a sick stomach. 800 01:07:28,792 --> 01:07:32,754 She'd go home and sleep for a while. Are you sure she's not in her bed? 801 01:07:32,796 --> 01:07:36,259 Where is she? What's happening to our Rosie? 802 01:07:36,342 --> 01:07:39,303 Stop sniveling. Did she go towards home? 803 01:07:39,345 --> 01:07:40,971 I think so. Yes. 804 01:07:41,055 --> 01:07:44,308 - She may have gone into the town. - Not wearing Wellingtons. 805 01:07:44,391 --> 01:07:46,435 She was wearing her good shoes... 806 01:07:46,518 --> 01:07:50,313 and her blue cardigan and her good skirt. 807 01:07:50,355 --> 01:07:52,942 - Danny Bradley. - What? 808 01:07:52,984 --> 01:07:56,487 - Oh, God, no. - Danny. Lough Anna. The back hills. 809 01:07:56,570 --> 01:08:01,450 What about the back hills? What do you know about this Bradley business? 810 01:08:01,492 --> 01:08:04,828 - I know no more than any of you! - You and Rose always whisper together. 811 01:08:04,911 --> 01:08:07,455 What plot has been hatched between Rose and Mr. Bradley? 812 01:08:07,539 --> 01:08:09,666 - No plot, Kate, please! - You're lyin' to me, Agnes! 813 01:08:09,749 --> 01:08:13,712 - You're withholdin'. I want the truth. - All I know is what I have... 814 01:08:13,796 --> 01:08:15,839 - I want to know everything you know! - That'll do, Kate! 815 01:08:15,923 --> 01:08:18,425 Will you stop that at once? 816 01:08:18,509 --> 01:08:22,471 She may well be in the town. She may be on her way home. 817 01:08:22,512 --> 01:08:25,015 She may have fainted if she wasn't feelin' well. 818 01:08:25,098 --> 01:08:28,727 We're going to find her. 819 01:08:28,811 --> 01:08:31,021 You search the fields on the upper side of the lane. 820 01:08:31,063 --> 01:08:34,191 You take the lower side down as far as the main road. 821 01:08:34,274 --> 01:08:38,153 Kate, you go to the old well and search all around there. 822 01:08:44,534 --> 01:08:48,997 - What are you calling him for? - He has a motorbike. We need him. 823 01:09:15,899 --> 01:09:19,527 I may go home soon, Kate, see if the others have found her. 824 01:09:19,569 --> 01:09:22,531 She might be in the kitchen, havin' a cup of tea. 825 01:09:22,572 --> 01:09:25,116 I wonder if we'll soon have tea to drink. 826 01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:28,578 I've had a letter from Father Carlin. And I'm not a teacher anymore. 827 01:09:28,661 --> 01:09:31,706 - What? - Decline in numbers, he said. 828 01:09:31,748 --> 01:09:33,458 A lie. 829 01:09:33,541 --> 01:09:35,543 He thanked me. 830 01:09:35,626 --> 01:09:37,586 A lie. 831 01:09:37,628 --> 01:09:39,923 A lie, a lie, a lie, a lie. 832 01:09:57,899 --> 01:09:59,859 What is that? 833 01:09:59,943 --> 01:10:02,570 The Lughnasa fires. 834 01:10:02,612 --> 01:10:05,948 People light them and dance and jump over them. 835 01:10:06,032 --> 01:10:08,951 A fellow called Sweeney fell into a fire. 836 01:10:08,993 --> 01:10:10,953 He was almost burnt to death. 837 01:10:10,995 --> 01:10:15,500 Lugh, god of light, god of music. 838 01:10:15,583 --> 01:10:17,168 I remember. 839 01:10:17,252 --> 01:10:19,754 Uncle Jack, where are you goin'? 840 01:10:19,837 --> 01:10:22,298 I'm supposed to be mindin' ya. 841 01:10:23,341 --> 01:10:25,801 Uncle Jack! Come back! 842 01:11:49,301 --> 01:11:51,345 You're not even a real priest. 843 01:12:07,027 --> 01:12:09,404 Welcome to the Lughnasa fires, Father Jack! 844 01:12:09,446 --> 01:12:12,324 Is this Africa? Rose? 845 01:12:13,616 --> 01:12:17,913 We're gettin' married. I'm Danny Bradley, and I'm gonna marry Rose. 846 01:12:19,998 --> 01:12:22,751 I wanna go home! 847 01:12:22,793 --> 01:12:24,920 Are these our relations? Is this your wedding? 848 01:12:25,003 --> 01:12:28,089 No, they're savages! Pagans! They're no connection to us! 849 01:12:28,173 --> 01:12:30,925 Will you marry us, Father? Marry me and Rose! 850 01:12:30,967 --> 01:12:33,804 I won't marry you, Danny. You're married already! 851 01:12:33,887 --> 01:12:36,765 No, look, Rose! Look! Look! 852 01:12:36,807 --> 01:12:38,892 Look what I'll do for you. 853 01:12:46,441 --> 01:12:49,402 - I'm goin' away! - Where? 854 01:12:49,444 --> 01:12:52,990 It's a secret! Good-bye! 855 01:12:53,073 --> 01:12:55,951 We must go home! These are not our people! 856 01:12:55,992 --> 01:12:58,453 - Where are you goin'? - I don't know where! 857 01:12:59,621 --> 01:13:03,458 - We're just going home. - I'll follow you. 858 01:13:05,126 --> 01:13:06,377 I'll get ya. 859 01:13:42,329 --> 01:13:44,291 Are you comin' home? 860 01:13:49,087 --> 01:13:51,506 You got loads. 861 01:13:54,008 --> 01:13:56,135 They're nice. They're sweet. 862 01:13:56,218 --> 01:14:00,139 Rose love, we were wild worried about you. 863 01:14:00,181 --> 01:14:02,976 You said you were coming home to lie down. 864 01:14:03,017 --> 01:14:06,145 - But you didn't come home. - Were ya in the town? 865 01:14:06,229 --> 01:14:08,356 That's why you're all dressed up, isn't it? 866 01:14:08,439 --> 01:14:10,149 You went into Ballybeg, didn't ya? 867 01:14:14,904 --> 01:14:17,364 We'll go and pick some more blackberries next week. 868 01:14:17,406 --> 01:14:21,619 All right. I'll lie down for a few hours... 869 01:14:21,703 --> 01:14:24,872 but I'll be up to fetch turf in the morning. 870 01:14:24,914 --> 01:14:27,041 I want to know where you've been. 871 01:14:27,124 --> 01:14:29,960 - Later, after she sleeps. - Where you have been! 872 01:14:35,924 --> 01:14:37,802 - Lough Anna. - Where? 873 01:14:40,638 --> 01:14:42,848 - Lough Anna. - Kate, just leave her. 874 01:14:42,890 --> 01:14:45,893 - You walked to Lough Anna? - Yes. 875 01:14:45,976 --> 01:14:48,562 Did you meet someone there? 876 01:14:48,646 --> 01:14:51,857 Had you arranged to meet someone there? 877 01:14:56,320 --> 01:15:01,242 I had arranged to meet Danny Bradley there. 878 01:15:02,826 --> 01:15:07,289 He brought me out in his father's blue boat. 879 01:15:07,372 --> 01:15:09,583 It's a very peaceful place up there. 880 01:15:11,168 --> 01:15:13,588 He calls me his Rosebud, Aggie. 881 01:15:13,671 --> 01:15:17,341 Oh, I told you, didn't I? 882 01:15:17,424 --> 01:15:20,386 Then the two of us went up through the back hills. 883 01:15:20,427 --> 01:15:24,264 We must have seen the last of the Lughnasa fires. 884 01:15:24,306 --> 01:15:27,392 They are pagans. 885 01:15:28,476 --> 01:15:30,688 I came home with Jack... 886 01:15:30,771 --> 01:15:34,650 and I said good-bye to Danny. 887 01:15:37,027 --> 01:15:40,238 And that's all I'm gonna tell ya. 888 01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:43,867 That's all any of youse are gonna hear! 889 01:15:50,457 --> 01:15:52,751 What's happened to this house? 890 01:15:52,793 --> 01:15:56,880 Mother of God, what has happened to this house? 891 01:15:56,963 --> 01:15:59,257 We should get some sleep. 892 01:16:02,844 --> 01:16:06,223 Come on, Katie dear, to your bed. 893 01:16:21,237 --> 01:16:22,823 Maggie'll kill you. 894 01:17:11,287 --> 01:17:14,040 - Where's Gerry? - He's trying to fix the aerial. 895 01:17:14,081 --> 01:17:16,168 That bloody set was never any good. 896 01:17:16,209 --> 01:17:18,336 Never any damned good, that bloody set! 897 01:17:18,378 --> 01:17:22,382 - He knows what he's doing. - Never any damned good, that bloody set. 898 01:17:22,465 --> 01:17:25,968 You've already offered us that bit of wisdom. 899 01:18:19,188 --> 01:18:22,691 Come on. Come and join me. Come on. 900 01:18:46,674 --> 01:18:48,384 Come on. 901 01:21:57,196 --> 01:21:59,157 Will you and Michael come away with me? 902 01:22:03,994 --> 01:22:05,621 I know. 903 01:22:07,831 --> 01:22:09,500 Is there nothing I can do? 904 01:22:12,002 --> 01:22:14,255 Nothing. 905 01:22:15,089 --> 01:22:16,841 I could leave you alone. 906 01:22:18,509 --> 01:22:19,969 You could. 907 01:22:21,220 --> 01:22:22,930 Soon. 908 01:22:29,519 --> 01:22:32,481 Don't leave me just yet. 909 01:23:02,219 --> 01:23:04,804 Come on. Keep up. 910 01:23:04,888 --> 01:23:07,558 Come on, Daddy. Give it to me. 911 01:23:14,982 --> 01:23:16,983 Soccer's no game for a man. 912 01:23:17,067 --> 01:23:19,736 Rugby! That's what Welshmen play. 913 01:23:23,531 --> 01:23:25,743 If I had time, I'd teach you to play rugby. 914 01:23:28,287 --> 01:23:30,998 You know I'm goin' away tomorrow, don't you? 915 01:23:32,707 --> 01:23:34,389 Will you miss me? 916 01:23:34,718 --> 01:23:36,627 Will you miss me? 917 01:23:37,087 --> 01:23:39,756 And Mammy? Will you miss her? 918 01:23:40,506 --> 01:23:42,676 I will. 919 01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:45,095 Then don't go, Daddy. 920 01:23:46,513 --> 01:23:48,682 I'm a soldier now, Michael. 921 01:23:49,766 --> 01:23:52,394 I have to fight. 922 01:23:53,978 --> 01:23:56,105 Look, there's your Uncle Jack. 923 01:24:00,444 --> 01:24:02,237 What's he doin' in that regalia? 924 01:24:06,866 --> 01:24:08,785 Gerry, my dear friend. 925 01:24:08,868 --> 01:24:12,622 We must now make our formal farewells. 926 01:24:12,705 --> 01:24:15,583 I hope all goes well in Spain, you old rogue. 927 01:24:15,625 --> 01:24:18,170 - You're off tomorrow? - I am, comrade. 928 01:24:18,253 --> 01:24:20,755 That's a wonderful uniform. I could do with that for Spain. 929 01:24:20,839 --> 01:24:26,427 It was my uniform when I was chaplain to the British Army in the Great War. 930 01:24:26,469 --> 01:24:31,140 There was a time when it fitted. There was a time when it was splendid. 931 01:24:32,058 --> 01:24:34,227 It still is splendid. 932 01:24:34,311 --> 01:24:37,814 We must now make the exchange the way they do in Africa. 933 01:24:37,897 --> 01:24:41,276 Now, I place my possession on the ground. 934 01:24:43,569 --> 01:24:46,447 And take three steps away. 935 01:24:48,366 --> 01:24:50,910 Then I turn round once. 936 01:24:55,999 --> 01:25:00,837 Now, you come to where I was, and I move over to where you were standing. 937 01:25:06,801 --> 01:25:10,680 The exchange is now formally and irrevocably complete. 938 01:25:12,182 --> 01:25:14,642 This is my straw hat. 939 01:25:14,726 --> 01:25:17,019 And that is your ceremonial hat. 940 01:25:18,854 --> 01:25:20,272 Put it on. 941 01:25:22,233 --> 01:25:25,402 Splendid! It suits ya. 942 01:25:25,486 --> 01:25:27,197 Splendid. 943 01:25:53,889 --> 01:25:57,393 I'm broke to the bone arrivin' so late but I had to tell youse... 944 01:25:57,476 --> 01:25:59,520 it's definite. 945 01:26:00,562 --> 01:26:02,732 I have to pay youse off. 946 01:26:02,815 --> 01:26:04,734 There'll be no more need for home knit gloves. 947 01:26:04,817 --> 01:26:07,486 The factory's definitely startin' in Donegal Town. 948 01:26:07,570 --> 01:26:09,530 How are we going to live, Vera? 949 01:26:11,031 --> 01:26:13,742 Youse may apply for a job in it. 950 01:26:13,826 --> 01:26:16,119 I wish youse better luck than I had. 951 01:26:16,203 --> 01:26:19,749 They told me I was too old. I'm 41. 952 01:26:20,791 --> 01:26:22,376 They said I was too old. 953 01:26:22,460 --> 01:26:24,336 It was good of you to come and tell us. 954 01:26:26,130 --> 01:26:28,799 I only wish it was better news. 955 01:26:29,883 --> 01:26:32,761 - Good night to youse. - Good night. 956 01:26:33,629 --> 01:26:35,280 Good night. 957 01:26:47,484 --> 01:26:50,153 I'll make us all a nice cup of tea. 958 01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:53,782 Sit down. 959 01:26:58,787 --> 01:27:01,206 Right. 960 01:27:01,290 --> 01:27:04,126 Right you be. 961 01:27:10,882 --> 01:27:15,971 For there's no places on Earth just like 962 01:27:16,054 --> 01:27:19,891 The homes of Donegal 963 01:27:22,269 --> 01:27:24,396 I can't stick that song. 964 01:27:29,442 --> 01:27:34,281 - We might get another rooster for ya. - It doesn't matter. 965 01:27:34,323 --> 01:27:39,160 - And I'll put manners on him early. - I don't want another. 966 01:27:40,161 --> 01:27:41,454 Where's Jack? 967 01:27:42,664 --> 01:27:45,541 He's out lookin' up at the moon and stars. 968 01:27:45,625 --> 01:27:50,839 He's conducting his own distinctive spiritual search. 969 01:27:50,881 --> 01:27:53,008 Let him. 970 01:27:53,091 --> 01:27:56,594 Do you know what I'm thinkin'? 971 01:27:56,678 --> 01:27:59,097 What has Ballybeg not got that Ballybeg needs? 972 01:27:59,180 --> 01:28:01,099 - What? - A dressmaker. 973 01:28:02,058 --> 01:28:04,852 So why doesn't Agnes Mundy who has such clever hands... 974 01:28:04,894 --> 01:28:07,022 why doesn't she dressmake? 975 01:28:07,105 --> 01:28:09,983 - Clever hands? - You'd get a pile of work. 976 01:28:10,025 --> 01:28:13,528 - You'd make a fortune. - Some fortune in Ballybeg. 977 01:28:13,611 --> 01:28:15,238 Stitching shrouds. 978 01:28:15,321 --> 01:28:18,199 - Then how you gonna manage? - She'll manage. 979 01:28:18,282 --> 01:28:21,494 We'll pull together. The family will always manage. 980 01:28:21,535 --> 01:28:24,539 We will manage. We always do. 981 01:28:25,707 --> 01:28:28,835 - And you know how, don't you? - How? 982 01:28:28,877 --> 01:28:31,170 Our secret. Don't you remember? 983 01:28:32,755 --> 01:28:37,635 That's right. Our secret. 984 01:29:25,433 --> 01:29:28,268 We never saw them again. 985 01:29:28,310 --> 01:29:30,687 They vanished without a trace. 986 01:29:31,855 --> 01:29:35,526 Years later I learned that they ended as shadows on the streets of London... 987 01:29:35,610 --> 01:29:39,530 scraping a living together, dying alone. 988 01:29:44,785 --> 01:29:47,162 My Uncle Jack lasted as long as he could... 989 01:29:47,246 --> 01:29:49,748 believing to the end in the Earth and the stars. 990 01:29:56,088 --> 01:29:59,341 My father did go to Spain and was wounded. 991 01:30:00,843 --> 01:30:04,263 My Aunt Kate said it would put an end to his dancing days. 992 01:30:04,304 --> 01:30:06,264 Maybe it did. 993 01:30:08,142 --> 01:30:12,646 My mother got a job at the factory. She hated it all her life. 994 01:30:12,730 --> 01:30:16,400 And my father wrote to her occasionally. 995 01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:21,530 Through it all, Aunt Maggie tried to keep the house going. 996 01:30:21,613 --> 01:30:23,823 She tried to pretend that nothin' had happened... 997 01:30:23,907 --> 01:30:25,826 but the family had changed. 998 01:30:25,910 --> 01:30:28,329 It had changed forever. 999 01:30:33,834 --> 01:30:37,337 And my Aunt Kate was inconsolable. 1000 01:30:37,421 --> 01:30:39,339 Inconsolable. 1001 01:30:58,608 --> 01:31:01,153 Me... I was waitin' to become a man... 1002 01:31:01,195 --> 01:31:03,197 waitin' to get away. 1003 01:31:03,238 --> 01:31:05,324 Just to go away. 1004 01:31:06,074 --> 01:31:08,743 But the memory of that summer is like a dream to me... 1005 01:31:08,827 --> 01:31:11,913 a dream of music that is both heard and imagined... 1006 01:31:11,997 --> 01:31:15,750 that seems to be both itself and its own echo. 1007 01:31:15,833 --> 01:31:19,088 When I remember it, I think of it as dancing... 1008 01:31:19,171 --> 01:31:23,341 dancing as if language had surrendered to movement... 1009 01:31:23,425 --> 01:31:27,012 dancing as if language no longer existed... 1010 01:31:27,144 --> 01:31:30,001 because words were no longer necessary. 1011 01:31:31,305 --> 01:31:37,496 Please rate this subtitle at %url% Help other users to choose the best subtitles