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Lord of all spirit and all flesh in whose
ever embrace all creatures live...
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and whatsoever world or condition they be.
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I beseech thee...
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pull her hand to his name and
dwell into the every need thou knowest.
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Thou art life and rest,
refreshment, joy and consolation...
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and paradise and in
companionship of the Saints...
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the presence of Christ and the
hands that hold, all guide with love.
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Where is father?
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- Where is father?
- He's in the pub.
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- It's the little sprout again.
- Poor creature.
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- As pale as a fish's belly.
- And those eyes.
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She's only lost in the world and that's all.
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And what would you be in a
strange land without a mother's touch?
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- A drunkard.
- You're already that.
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Jim, wake up, will you? It's your daughter.
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- How you girl?
- She's worn out Jim.
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Open your eyes, she looks
as if she's raised in a tin box.
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Fresh air, that's the ticket.
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Little sprout like her breathing the
poison fumes in the air of this town.
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- You have to take her to the country.
- It's no work to be had at home.
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I'm never going back
to the island, that's done.
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A lemon squash for you dear.
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It isn't a place to be
raising a girl around here.
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- I do my best.
- You try, bless you.
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Why not send her off to
her grandfather's place then?
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You'd like that, wouldn't you love?
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You'd like that, living with the old people.
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Grandfather.
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Fiona.
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We were expecting you later.
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- Father had to put me on the morning boat.
- You've climbed all this way up by yourself?
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It's great to see you.
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Your grandmother saw
you below, she nearly had a fit.
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- She knew it's me?
- With that head of hair?
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At double the distance
I'd know you were a Coneelly.
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- And your father and his brother the same.
- All but for Jamie, he's the only dark one.
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You better not mention anything
about Jamie in front of grandmother.
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She's got the tea ready for you now.
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Oh, look at your
arms dear, like sticks they are.
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- Eat up now.
- The sea air she's needing.
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Sure, I hear you can't find a
proper hen's egg in that city.
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But the one's here is nothing
compared to those laid on the island.
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- Oh, you and that island.
- It's true enough though.
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That old cow only give half
the milk she gave on Roan Inish.
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Look, what's done is done and
there's no use moaning over it.
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Why did we have to leave?
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It was the young people dear,
like your father and his brothers.
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They were restless on the island and
then came the war and jobs across the sea.
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Now, as they have the taste
of the city in their blood.
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Ah, city indeed, nothing but noise and
dirt and people that's lost their senses.
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Couldn't tell the difference between a rip...
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tide and a rain drop if you
shoved their face in the water.
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- But you and grandmother?
- Oh, no.
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We couldn't start up from
naught, living alone on an island.
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There isn't a thing out
there for us but sad memories.
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- Can you see it from here?
- If the sky is willing, some can.
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Look out there, you see a
lighthouse on a long, flat island?
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- Think I do.
- And down there, to your right.
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A great island of dark hills.
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And there's a wee green bit
of an isle lying between them.
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- She sees it Tess.
- Ah, you put it into her head.
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She sees it.
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Only them that's born to the
islands can see it from this distance.
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They say the east is our
future and the west is our past.
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The island is to the west of us Hugh.
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That's Roan Inish girl, island of the seals.
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And there's more of them now
that the people have deserted.
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- You've been out there?
- Once a week, if the current is right.
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- God bless all here.
- Eamon, get in and sit for tea.
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You remember him Fiona?
Your cousin Eamon, uncle Patrick's boy.
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- Hello.
- So you moved back to the west.
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- Are you pleased?
- Oh yes, I'm well pleased.
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How come you never left with your family?
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I tried it for a month, then I ran back here.
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I'm not clever enough to
live in town, too fast for me.
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Which is good a young fella
in a curragh as ever I've seen.
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Oh now, the love of the sea is a sickness.
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And you two will come to grief for it, eat.
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She's seen Roan Inish
Eamon, on her first look.
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- Is that so?
- You go there too?
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I've not set foot there since the evacuation.
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But Grandfather
knows the shoals all about it.
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And what feeds there and when,
you always come back with a full net.
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When the rest of them are scared to fish it.
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- Why are they scared?
- Eamon.
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- Tales is all.
- Tales of what?
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If it clears up this evening,
you might see the light again.
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- Light?
- There's an end of it.
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I'll not have nonsense
and superstition in my house.
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Here, come on, do your
duty by those cakes Eamon.
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They won't keep, your grandfather
is already filled his gullet.
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The sea gives and the sea takes away.
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This is my father's father's father.
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A Coneelly man, he was only
a few years older than you are now.
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His name was Sean Michael, smart
boy, dark hair, bit of the rebel in him.
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Though times weren't as hard on
the island as they were on the mainland.
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It's never easy
pulling a living from the sea.
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The English were still
a force in the country then.
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They had the schools...
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and it was their language and their
ways that you had to learn there or else.
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I seek.
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Was a new schoolmaster in school one
year, stiff as a cat's whiskers he was.
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And Sean Michael, wasn't a week in his class
before he put the cingulum about his neck.
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It was a punishment of those days
for speaking Irish within his earshot.
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Eject. Eject. Eject. Eject. Eject. Eject.
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Sean Michael stuck it for as long as he
could, for he had the strength of character.
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But the shame was too
great and he tore it from his neck...
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and he went for the schoolmaster and
began to beat on the man, crying out.
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Hugh please. It's a little girl.
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- You don't understand, do you girl?
- I don't have any Irish.
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- More is the pity of it.
- Aye.
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Now, Sean Michael's father had great
hopes for the boy clever as he was...
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that he would learn to read the
Englishman's language and study his laws...
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and grow to be a leader for his people.
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There was his son, knuckles bloody,
anger in his heart, standing before him.
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You'll need to kill me to
make me go back he says.
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His father sighed then and
looked out to the sea beyond them.
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You'll have nothing now he said...
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the black rocks and the wild
waves and the hard sky above you.
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And wasn't it his first right
trip out with his father...
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that a fierce storm
from the north blew over them.
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Sean Michael, his father, his
brothers, his uncles and his cousins.
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Four boats in all.
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And it took them in its terrible grip and
lifted them high and turned them over and...
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and slapped them back
down in the violent black sea...
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with the scraps of
their curraghs around them.
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His father caught in their net and
dragged below without a whisper.
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Out as far as they
were, in a northern storm...
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an experienced fisherman would swallow
his drought of water and swim to the bottom.
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For to fight the cold sea is
only to prolong your suffering.
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But Sean Michael was green with it.
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And he flailed and he cried out and he
beat the water with his legs and arms...
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until the sea grew to hate him
and refused to swallow him up.
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Was a full day later when people
gathering muscles on the strand found him.
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And was some was even afraid to touch him.
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But was women, mostly,
soft hearted as they are.
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The boy was more dead than
alive, cold as ice to the touch.
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And there wasn't a fire in Ireland
could bring the blood of life back into him.
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This is the time when the country
people still lived with their beasts inside.
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And the woman as owned the house they brought
him to said, here, bind him up to my cow.
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And then she brought another alongside
and their heat went out through him.
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And soon he began to
shiver and then he began to shake.
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And then he slept
like a Christian for hours and hours.
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When he started to sweat, the
woman cut him loose from her animals.
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And they bathed him and wrapped him
in blankets warmed at the hearth.
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He woke to their faces
above him, all women and girls.
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Is this heaven then, he said.
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No lad, said the woman
of the house, it's only Tech Duin.
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Now, Tech Duin is the islands
where the people thought...
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that the souls of all
Ireland's dead were held to rest.
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And so, Sean Michael believed
he had drowned and come to the hereafter.
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Was a seal that
brought me here, he told them.
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I was sinking under, destroyed by the
effort of keeping my head above the swell.
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And a body, warm body,
came under me and lifted me up.
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Was a seal, from the feel of its hide.
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A great dark seal that bore me along
through the storm and I hugging its neck.
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That's all I remember until
I woke to your faces above me.
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And now, with his father and brothers
and uncles and cousins all gone...
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there's only Sean Michael left to keep
the Coneellys alive in these islands.
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- And he was saved by a seal?
- And two cows.
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And a woman that had her wits about her.
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- It's a wonderful story.
- Some thing so.
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And some say you should
never save a drowning man.
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What the sea will take, the sea must have.
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That's a lot of foolishness Hugh.
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It's said that some that are
saved turn wicked afterward.
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What happened to Sean
Michael, your great-grandfather?
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Jailed by the English,
died in prison, a man of fifty.
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- Smuggling arms to the Fenians, he was.
- Oh, that's enough for now.
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Take the child to bed Hugh, she's exhausted.
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Aye.
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Sweet dreams dear.
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Superstitious old man.
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I rake this fire as
the pure Christ rakes us all.
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Mary at the foot and Brigid at the head.
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And may the eight brightest
angels in the city of Grace...
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preserve this house and all its
people until the coming of the day.
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The light.
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Out into the sun with you now,
you'll find him below on the strand.
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Just follow the path across.
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Grandfather.
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Ah, Fiona.
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I was just wishing I had
someone to lend me a hand.
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It'd be a great help to me if you just
kept stirring the tar in this bucket here.
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I'd love it.
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In the olden times, people
used cow hide on their curraghs.
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Then it was calico and
now we make do with canvas.
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The tar is what it always was.
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- Would you like some tea dear?
- Yes please.
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She sent down an extra mug for you.
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There.
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I think I saw the light last night.
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Light, is it?
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- What light might that be?
- The one Eamon spoke of on Roan Inish.
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Ah, there's plenty of things could
be taken for a light in the dark.
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- And no telling how far off the light be.
- You just want me to forget about Jamie.
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We'll none of us forget him dear.
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But life goes on.
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I can't even remember when we lost him, I
was already off in the ship when it happened.
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Was a strange day.
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Everyone on the beach for the evacuation.
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The air was very still,
like it is sometimes before a storm.
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Was like a dream that day.
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A slow, terrible dream that
you watch but can't stop it.
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All the people had
rowed out and most of the goods.
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Was only your father and brother ashore.
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And wee Jamie, sleeping in his cradle.
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- In his cradle?
- Aye.
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Pulled up on the beach.
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Jamie.
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Wait.
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Jamie.
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Jamie.
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Jamie, he called, we're coming boy.
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I don't know how the cradle
could've made up so much speed.
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The sea had taken him, poor wee Jamie.
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It was angry with us for leaving Roan Inish.
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Mind that tar love or it'll be stiffer
than an old man on a winter's night.
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- He could still be out there.
- Jamie? Alive?
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And cows could've
wings dear, cows could've wings.
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You see this? It's a seal rent it open.
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They're terrible rascals for stealing fish.
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There was one staring at me
from the rock when I came in.
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Maybe he's fell in love.
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You got to be careful though, because
one day a year all the seals gather...
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00:28:31,197 --> 00:28:33,418
to choose their new king and it's said...
227
00:28:33,713 --> 00:28:38,805
whichever of the island girls he fancies
most taken below to live as his queen.
228
00:28:38,835 --> 00:28:41,807
- That's just stories.
- Some stories is true though.
229
00:28:42,205 --> 00:28:46,095
Grandfather told me about
Jamie, about when he was taken.
230
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,957
- Did he tell you the rumors?
- What rumors?
231
00:28:50,144 --> 00:28:51,753
There is them who claim to have seen him.
232
00:28:52,718 --> 00:28:55,743
Little Jamie, sailing
the seas in his cradle boat.
233
00:28:56,038 --> 00:28:57,810
What do they say he looks like?
234
00:28:58,238 --> 00:29:00,508
They say he has grown
into a fine little Gossoon.
235
00:29:00,914 --> 00:29:04,214
Sitting in the stern
of his cradle, like a captain in his ship.
236
00:29:04,821 --> 00:29:09,122
Always, there's creatures about
him, seals swimming in the water.
237
00:29:09,385 --> 00:29:11,732
A great crowd of seagulls squawking overhead.
238
00:29:11,962 --> 00:29:15,410
If you call out or try
to come closer, he vanishes...
239
00:29:15,672 --> 00:29:20,416
in a great splashing of water and
flapping of wings, like a phantom, they say.
240
00:29:20,580 --> 00:29:21,747
Where they see him?
241
00:29:22,025 --> 00:29:25,046
Coming back from the far side
of the islands, close to Roan Inish.
242
00:29:25,076 --> 00:29:28,657
- Grandfather?
- Don't let on I told you nothing.
243
00:29:29,543 --> 00:29:30,625
What is it?
244
00:29:34,419 --> 00:29:37,110
Can I go out with you
sometimes, in your boat?
245
00:29:37,637 --> 00:29:39,788
It'll be a few days before the tide is right.
246
00:29:40,034 --> 00:29:41,199
Then, will you?
247
00:29:42,665 --> 00:29:46,128
Well, we'll have to ask
your grandmother first.
248
00:29:46,604 --> 00:29:49,510
She won't have you out
on a boat unless the day is fine.
249
00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:10,830
Grandmother.
250
00:30:20,227 --> 00:30:25,694
- I've lost track, is this Roan Inish?
- Quiet now and you'll see something.
251
00:30:46,090 --> 00:30:49,152
See that little fella there?
It's his first year at sea.
252
00:30:49,653 --> 00:30:54,184
He's the one, he's the one that stared at
me on the boat coming over, I'm sure he is.
253
00:31:09,418 --> 00:31:11,595
You scared them away
with all your screeching.
254
00:31:11,898 --> 00:31:15,788
He was the one I saw,
he really did remember me.
255
00:31:15,953 --> 00:31:19,098
Hide your face then or he'll
be after taking you for a wife.
256
00:31:19,128 --> 00:31:22,651
- Don't scare the child.
- Fiona is never scared, are you, girl?
257
00:31:22,972 --> 00:31:25,599
- His name is Jax.
- And how do you know that?
258
00:31:25,629 --> 00:31:27,405
It just is, that's all.
259
00:31:28,351 --> 00:31:30,484
- There it is.
- Roan Inish?
260
00:31:30,701 --> 00:31:34,218
Aye. Isn't beautiful?
261
00:32:14,904 --> 00:32:16,008
Remember, Fiona?
262
00:32:18,006 --> 00:32:19,713
That was your house there, at that end.
263
00:32:22,094 --> 00:32:25,558
- Tess and I were next door.
- And ours was the one beyond.
264
00:32:29,186 --> 00:32:32,010
Right, we'll set
those pots and we'll be back.
265
00:32:32,535 --> 00:32:33,996
Don't wander too far.
266
00:34:57,791 --> 00:34:59,761
I wish you could talk to me.
267
00:35:44,505 --> 00:35:45,917
Fiona.
268
00:36:01,609 --> 00:36:03,670
Better be going while
the tide is still with us.
269
00:36:13,478 --> 00:36:16,673
- You miss it greatly?
- Roan Inish?
270
00:36:18,286 --> 00:36:20,436
Ah, it's only a place I suppose.
271
00:36:21,717 --> 00:36:23,638
Mostly I miss the way of life.
272
00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:27,611
Being surrounded by the
sea, whole family about you.
273
00:36:27,807 --> 00:36:31,419
I'm moving back, when I'm a man.
274
00:36:32,469 --> 00:36:34,751
You'll be a sorry sight
out there on your own.
275
00:36:35,096 --> 00:36:38,346
- Haunting the island, all on your lonesome.
- Oh no, I'll have a wife.
276
00:36:38,641 --> 00:36:40,283
But will she have you Eamon?
277
00:36:41,301 --> 00:36:45,487
Not many women these days see
much romance in hard work and solitude.
278
00:36:45,799 --> 00:36:47,931
I'm moving back just the same.
279
00:36:53,563 --> 00:36:55,722
Remember the evenings best.
280
00:36:56,042 --> 00:37:00,294
We'd drop over and your mother,
God rest her, would be laying out food.
281
00:37:01,854 --> 00:37:04,661
Your father smoking and
drying his feet by the fire.
282
00:37:06,341 --> 00:37:09,306
Then you Fiona and poor wee Jamie...
283
00:37:09,898 --> 00:37:12,524
off in the corner with
little pieces of dinnerware.
284
00:37:14,084 --> 00:37:15,807
Tea parties, it was.
285
00:37:17,055 --> 00:37:19,311
You were always a
great one for the tea parties.
286
00:37:27,806 --> 00:37:29,756
Someone is been in our old cottage.
287
00:37:30,564 --> 00:37:35,035
- Vandals, is it?
- No, someone is living there.
288
00:37:35,571 --> 00:37:38,362
- Don't be daft.
- I saw a footprint.
289
00:37:38,608 --> 00:37:42,761
- Footprint of a little boy.
- Why didn't you show it to us then?
290
00:37:43,212 --> 00:37:44,379
A wave destroyed it.
291
00:37:44,542 --> 00:37:48,006
Fiona, there's all sorts of things can
look like a footprint on the shore.
292
00:37:49,006 --> 00:37:51,551
I saw it. I did.
293
00:37:56,086 --> 00:37:58,479
- So you saw the island today.
- Yes.
294
00:38:03,006 --> 00:38:05,835
And the houses are in
a terrible state I suppose?
295
00:38:06,129 --> 00:38:08,403
They weren't so bad,
with a little bit of cleaning.
296
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,465
Ah, you're idle for
a week, nature takes it back.
297
00:38:12,826 --> 00:38:15,845
There'll be birds nesting
in the thatch and the chimney.
298
00:38:16,076 --> 00:38:18,500
Creepy, crawly things in every corner.
299
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:22,725
It wasn't so bad, our old cottage
looked as if we left it a day ago.
300
00:38:22,755 --> 00:38:26,336
Was sand in everything blowing off the beach.
301
00:38:26,508 --> 00:38:27,901
It was clean though.
302
00:38:28,989 --> 00:38:32,721
And the mornings and the mist on the water.
303
00:38:34,856 --> 00:38:36,038
We could move back.
304
00:38:36,301 --> 00:38:38,533
Grandfather said it's the best fishing.
305
00:38:38,943 --> 00:38:41,077
Oh child, I couldn't think of it.
306
00:38:41,958 --> 00:38:44,951
I've only the picture in my
mind of your poor little brother...
307
00:38:45,755 --> 00:38:46,953
floating away.
308
00:38:48,316 --> 00:38:52,715
The only real tragedy in life is young
people passing on before their time.
309
00:38:53,683 --> 00:38:55,522
I always remember his eyes.
310
00:38:56,495 --> 00:39:00,857
Dark they were, with
a great soul behind them.
311
00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:04,567
Oh, he was here before.
312
00:39:06,110 --> 00:39:07,506
Jamie.
313
00:39:09,656 --> 00:39:12,070
Tess, don't start.
314
00:39:14,285 --> 00:39:15,352
Right.
315
00:39:28,527 --> 00:39:32,879
One and a quarter pounds, to the grain.
316
00:39:33,278 --> 00:39:36,404
You're a mean, penny pinching creature Flynn.
317
00:39:36,676 --> 00:39:38,892
Fiona darling, you have me purse.
318
00:39:44,654 --> 00:39:47,888
- Is this the granddaughter then?
- It is.
319
00:39:48,808 --> 00:39:53,732
- She isn't one of the dark ones, is she?
- Mind your own business Flynn.
320
00:39:54,536 --> 00:39:57,120
You wait here darling while I
go and fetch your grandfather.
321
00:39:57,150 --> 00:39:58,383
I could get him.
322
00:39:58,470 --> 00:40:03,039
I'll not have a young girl exposed to the
layabouts spend their days in that pub.
323
00:40:06,158 --> 00:40:08,044
You call this fresh, do you?
324
00:40:09,293 --> 00:40:11,309
You ought to be ashamed.
325
00:40:11,396 --> 00:40:14,877
She's the original tough customer, Old Tess.
326
00:40:17,074 --> 00:40:19,307
- What's dark ones?
- Hey?
327
00:40:19,997 --> 00:40:22,798
You said before that I wasn't a dark one.
328
00:40:23,395 --> 00:40:26,662
- Haven't they told you?
- Told me what?
329
00:40:30,421 --> 00:40:31,590
Come along then.
330
00:40:43,882 --> 00:40:45,517
There's an example for you.
331
00:40:47,170 --> 00:40:49,085
Tadgh be your father's first cousin.
332
00:40:50,202 --> 00:40:53,239
Once in a generation the
Coneellys spit out a dark one.
333
00:40:53,785 --> 00:40:58,365
- Like me brother Jamie?
- Aye, Tadgh would be the one ahead of him.
334
00:40:59,514 --> 00:41:03,109
- Will he know me?
- You talk to him if you like.
335
00:41:03,749 --> 00:41:05,686
But there's no saying if he'll talk back.
336
00:41:06,625 --> 00:41:08,888
He's a bit special if you know what I mean.
337
00:41:26,091 --> 00:41:27,254
Hello.
338
00:41:29,675 --> 00:41:34,054
I'm Fiona, Fiona Coneelly,
you know my father.
339
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:37,451
I know you.
340
00:41:38,616 --> 00:41:42,031
- You do?
- You're after something?
341
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,395
I am.
342
00:41:45,533 --> 00:41:48,433
- It's as plain as day.
- Will I find it?
343
00:41:49,353 --> 00:41:51,043
I've no idea of the future.
344
00:41:52,275 --> 00:41:53,846
I can see the past quite well.
345
00:41:55,064 --> 00:41:57,204
And the present, if the weather is clear.
346
00:41:57,445 --> 00:41:59,186
Leave off Tadgh, you're
frightening the wee girl.
347
00:42:00,887 --> 00:42:02,353
She's not easily frightened, this one.
348
00:42:03,455 --> 00:42:04,188
Am I right?
349
00:42:07,771 --> 00:42:08,774
You know why I am dark?
350
00:42:09,185 --> 00:42:11,155
Because his brain is full of
shoe polish and it's leaking...
351
00:42:11,156 --> 00:42:12,865
- That's enough out of you.
- Easy Tadgh.
352
00:42:23,583 --> 00:42:25,693
The Coneellys first came to Roan Inish...
353
00:42:26,465 --> 00:42:28,924
when it was still only
Irish spoken on the islands.
354
00:42:30,186 --> 00:42:32,624
They built their meager homes on the beach...
355
00:42:32,963 --> 00:42:35,896
and the seals and the birds
moved aside to make room for them.
356
00:42:36,695 --> 00:42:38,840
It was only a few families and all related.
357
00:42:40,333 --> 00:42:42,285
So, when it came time to find a mate...
358
00:42:43,141 --> 00:42:44,679
was elsewhere you had to look.
359
00:42:46,715 --> 00:42:49,144
There was a boy among them, Liam...
360
00:42:50,101 --> 00:42:51,909
who always preferred to be alone.
361
00:42:53,096 --> 00:42:55,630
He set his own traps, built his own curragh.
362
00:42:56,219 --> 00:42:58,563
He sat alone at all the family gatherings.
363
00:43:00,130 --> 00:43:02,769
One day, walking about the other islands...
364
00:43:03,829 --> 00:43:06,985
he saw a thing his eyes could scarce believe.
365
00:43:09,372 --> 00:43:12,881
In them days, seals was
hunted for their oil and hides.
366
00:43:13,073 --> 00:43:17,574
Clubbed to death and made into coats
and pouches and pampooties for the feet.
367
00:43:18,741 --> 00:43:22,526
But Liam never took part in it
for he believed, as many did then...
368
00:43:23,065 --> 00:43:25,851
that there was no worse
luck than to harm a seal.
369
00:43:33,967 --> 00:43:36,869
Liam had seen a selkie.
370
00:43:37,973 --> 00:43:40,735
A creature that's half human and half beast.
371
00:43:42,315 --> 00:43:46,425
Old stories told of such
creatures, luring ships onto the rocks...
372
00:43:46,455 --> 00:43:48,686
and pulling sailors down into the drink.
373
00:43:49,761 --> 00:43:51,202
But all Liam knew...
374
00:43:51,790 --> 00:43:55,502
was he'd never seen
a woman so lovely in all his life.
375
00:44:49,128 --> 00:44:52,535
Now, it was said that whoever
could capture the hide of a selkie...
376
00:44:53,450 --> 00:44:57,140
would've it in their power
to command as they would.
377
00:44:58,370 --> 00:45:00,467
The selkie maid had seen man before.
378
00:45:00,809 --> 00:45:04,405
Fled from their fishing hooks
and their spears and mattocks.
379
00:45:04,668 --> 00:45:09,389
But never had she seen one as
glorious and handsome as Liam Coneelly.
380
00:45:42,204 --> 00:45:46,002
All the islanders had seen
Liam row out to sea alone.
381
00:45:47,095 --> 00:45:50,502
And now all saw his
return with the strange girl.
382
00:45:53,615 --> 00:45:55,307
Island people is a careful lot.
383
00:45:56,505 --> 00:46:00,091
Not likely to pass judgment on
another person's business in public.
384
00:46:02,046 --> 00:46:06,966
Was something so unearthly about the girl
that soon set their tongues to wagging.
385
00:46:09,942 --> 00:46:13,244
And there was much shaking of
heads when Liam married the stranger.
386
00:46:14,095 --> 00:46:18,206
She hardly spoke at all and when
she did, her Irish was queer sounding.
387
00:46:18,910 --> 00:46:21,644
More ancient than their
grandfather's grandfather's.
388
00:46:22,232 --> 00:46:24,420
And when they asked
him where he'd found her...
389
00:46:25,134 --> 00:46:28,730
with her great dark eyes,
and her wild black hair...
390
00:46:29,666 --> 00:46:31,297
he only say Skellig.
391
00:46:32,116 --> 00:46:35,361
Of course, this was nonsense,
because it was only a speck in the ocean
392
00:46:35,371 --> 00:46:37,940
that even the seals had to
leave when the tide was high.
393
00:46:39,025 --> 00:46:40,825
And she'd always be at the water...
394
00:46:41,742 --> 00:46:43,701
looking out at the seals and the birds.
395
00:46:56,719 --> 00:47:00,546
And she'd come back each day with
her hands full of shellfish and seaweed...
396
00:47:00,655 --> 00:47:04,887
she'd simmer over a
driftwood fire in a manner all her own.
397
00:47:10,758 --> 00:47:14,594
But all had to admit that she
was a good wife for their Liam.
398
00:47:16,167 --> 00:47:19,506
Before long she was asking him
to build a cradle for their first born.
399
00:47:22,024 --> 00:47:25,473
It must be made with the wood of a
ship that sailed the ocean, she told him.
400
00:47:25,775 --> 00:47:29,704
And there'll be no need for rockers
for it'll rock on the motion of the sea.
401
00:47:31,270 --> 00:47:35,773
It was the queerest looking
thing, more of a ship than a cradle.
402
00:47:36,101 --> 00:47:39,467
And carved with shells and fish and seaweed.
403
00:47:52,615 --> 00:47:56,046
And whenever the day was calm, then
they put the babe afloat on the water.
404
00:47:56,571 --> 00:48:01,201
Rocking on the sea with the ripple of
the waves against the hull for a lullaby.
405
00:48:09,048 --> 00:48:14,936
Now the years passed and Liam and Nuala
for that's what the selkie called herself...
406
00:48:15,204 --> 00:48:20,293
was happy in their work and their
love grew and they had many children.
407
00:48:21,343 --> 00:48:26,727
With all that, was always
a touch of sadness about Nuala.
408
00:48:27,712 --> 00:48:31,176
She spent long hours looking
out at that that she'd come from...
409
00:48:31,487 --> 00:48:35,165
and listening to the cries of
the seals on the outer islands.
410
00:48:35,936 --> 00:48:37,726
One of these afternoons...
411
00:48:38,119 --> 00:48:43,881
was her eldest, who was called Fiona,
said the words to her that changed all.
412
00:48:51,301 --> 00:48:54,962
Why does father hide
a leather coat in the roof?
413
00:49:16,220 --> 00:49:17,631
Later that evening...
414
00:49:18,189 --> 00:49:23,360
as Liam was rowing home,
he was followed by a solitary seal.
415
00:49:32,478 --> 00:49:37,700
It seemed joyous in its movements,
it rolled and dived within the waves...
416
00:49:37,730 --> 00:49:40,121
joyous in the sleekness of its body.
417
00:49:41,017 --> 00:49:44,359
But it's eyes, with all its kind...
418
00:49:45,003 --> 00:49:48,164
held a sadness as deep as the soul.
419
00:49:49,582 --> 00:49:51,589
When the seal left him at last...
420
00:49:52,367 --> 00:49:56,241
Liam felt a great emptiness inside, a fear.
421
00:49:56,654 --> 00:50:01,497
And he rowed furious for the shore even
though the sea was heavy on his oars.
422
00:50:05,931 --> 00:50:11,488
When he got home, was the faces of
his children told him his fears were true.
423
00:50:13,606 --> 00:50:16,395
For once a selkie finds its skin again...
424
00:50:16,815 --> 00:50:21,312
neither chains of steel nor chains
of love can keep her from the sea.
425
00:50:28,804 --> 00:50:30,328
From that day on...
426
00:50:31,221 --> 00:50:33,879
it was forbidden to
harm a seal on the island.
427
00:50:34,972 --> 00:50:39,343
And man and beast lived side by
side, sharing the wealth of the sea.
428
00:50:41,024 --> 00:50:43,636
And sometimes the Coneellys would see her.
429
00:50:44,133 --> 00:50:48,514
Out in the waves,
basking in the sun on Skellig.
430
00:50:49,776 --> 00:50:50,752
Watching them.
431
00:50:52,079 --> 00:50:53,325
Watching her children.
432
00:50:55,217 --> 00:50:57,927
And the cradle was
passed down through the years.
433
00:50:58,904 --> 00:51:02,728
With each new infant of the
Coneellys rocked upon the waves within it.
434
00:51:03,380 --> 00:51:04,683
And every so often...
435
00:51:05,376 --> 00:51:08,761
There'd be one born with the
dark eyes and the black hair...
436
00:51:08,791 --> 00:51:10,837
that the selkie had left in their blood.
437
00:51:12,006 --> 00:51:14,590
And these dark ones were most at home at sea.
438
00:51:15,450 --> 00:51:18,594
Great sailors and
fisher folk, everyone of them.
439
00:51:18,624 --> 00:51:21,618
Like Tadgh here, he's
an admiral in the Royal Navy.
440
00:51:22,164 --> 00:51:24,155
Fiona, get out from there.
441
00:51:24,906 --> 00:51:26,244
Your grandfather is ready.
442
00:51:28,202 --> 00:51:30,335
Welcome back Fiona Coneelly.
443
00:51:32,061 --> 00:51:33,120
We've been waiting.
444
00:51:53,582 --> 00:51:56,167
- Is he mad?
- Tadgh?
445
00:51:57,828 --> 00:51:59,824
No, no, he's not mad.
446
00:52:00,887 --> 00:52:03,754
Wee bit strange, maybe. Always has been.
447
00:52:04,164 --> 00:52:05,935
He was a sailor for a little while.
448
00:52:06,465 --> 00:52:11,256
Off to savage islands in the east, places
a Christian man would do well to avoid.
449
00:52:12,694 --> 00:52:16,560
- Did he upset you?
- Oh no, he's very pleasant.
450
00:52:18,220 --> 00:52:20,323
But no, you don't have to
mind anything he says to you.
451
00:52:20,996 --> 00:52:23,842
Poor fella doesn't know if
he's wide awake or dreaming.
452
00:52:25,172 --> 00:52:28,297
Your grandfather and I have to
go over to Kilmurry bank tomorrow...
453
00:52:28,728 --> 00:52:31,148
to deal with the
landlord, would you like to come?
454
00:52:31,322 --> 00:52:32,571
Or maybe go with Eamon?
455
00:52:32,909 --> 00:52:35,871
He has to deliver parcels for the
postman among the smaller islands.
456
00:52:36,009 --> 00:52:37,332
I'd like to go with him.
457
00:52:38,394 --> 00:52:41,840
Well, if the weather
holds and you dress warm.
458
00:52:44,129 --> 00:52:46,585
He's a troubled soul, Tadgh Coneelly.
459
00:52:47,470 --> 00:52:50,047
It's as if he's caught
between earth and water.
460
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:11,754
And when the sun is just four fingers above
the horizon, you'd be ready and waiting?
461
00:53:11,784 --> 00:53:14,937
- I promise.
- And if the weather turns foul?
462
00:53:15,135 --> 00:53:18,401
I'll go into the cottage
and wait for you, I promise.
463
00:53:18,598 --> 00:53:21,968
- And you remember where there's water?
- I do.
464
00:53:22,193 --> 00:53:24,318
If any harm comes to
you, they'll have me head.
465
00:53:24,431 --> 00:53:27,282
- I'll be careful.
- Alright then.
466
00:57:03,125 --> 00:57:06,096
Jamie, Jamie.
467
00:57:08,580 --> 00:57:09,795
Jamie.
468
00:57:15,712 --> 00:57:18,618
Jamie, come here, come back.
469
00:57:24,117 --> 00:57:25,545
Jamie.
470
00:57:26,514 --> 00:57:27,779
Jamie.
471
00:57:29,436 --> 00:57:30,881
Jamie.
472
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,743
Jamie, Jamie, come back to me.
473
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:58,593
Hey, right on time.
474
00:57:59,102 --> 00:58:01,122
- I saw him today.
- Saw who?
475
00:58:01,630 --> 00:58:04,394
- Jamie.
- Sure you did.
476
00:58:04,684 --> 00:58:06,292
I did.
477
00:58:06,539 --> 00:58:11,314
Went into the cottage and made a fire and
fell asleep and dreamt of the selkie woman.
478
00:58:11,344 --> 00:58:15,436
And when I woke, I climbed to the
top of the island and I saw that seal.
479
00:58:15,780 --> 00:58:20,015
The little one that's been watching me,
then I was walking and he was there.
480
00:58:20,212 --> 00:58:23,577
Jamie, picking flowers but he ran from me.
481
00:58:23,807 --> 00:58:26,959
- Before I could reach him he was gone.
- Gone where?
482
00:58:27,157 --> 00:58:30,784
In his cradle, he
sailed away around the rocks.
483
00:58:31,178 --> 00:58:35,730
- There's talk of spirits out here, you know.
- He wasn't a spirit, he's a little boy.
484
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,074
I saw the flowers he pulled up,
he dropped them when he ran.
485
00:58:39,238 --> 00:58:41,330
Can a spirit do that?
486
00:58:41,898 --> 00:58:45,723
You've got to believe me, I saw him.
487
00:58:48,431 --> 00:58:52,186
I do believe you, but you mustn't tell our
grandparents what happened today.
488
00:58:52,216 --> 00:58:54,702
- You weren't even supposed to be out here.
- But if they knew...
489
00:58:54,732 --> 00:58:56,640
They'd only think you were dreaming at all.
490
00:58:57,608 --> 00:59:00,563
Let me think about it, we'll
come up with a plan, agreed?
491
00:59:01,186 --> 00:59:02,647
Agreed.
492
00:59:08,786 --> 00:59:10,621
Good evening Grandfather.
493
00:59:16,966 --> 00:59:18,193
Grandfather?
494
00:59:27,637 --> 00:59:28,682
What's wrong?
495
00:59:29,770 --> 00:59:33,826
- Oh, there you are dear.
- What is it?
496
00:59:35,036 --> 00:59:37,697
You know we don't own this house.
497
00:59:38,895 --> 00:59:40,980
Well, the landlord
says he got a letter today...
498
00:59:41,010 --> 00:59:45,002
from some wealthy people overseas
who want a place to summer in.
499
00:59:46,054 --> 00:59:50,160
- A gold mine, he called it.
- Where will you go?
500
00:59:50,190 --> 00:59:53,638
Inland, I suppose.
It's nothing available here.
501
00:59:55,132 --> 00:59:58,647
Oh, it was bad enough your grandfather
having to come in off the island...
502
00:59:58,677 --> 01:00:00,614
but to take him away from the sea...
503
01:00:02,108 --> 01:00:04,669
I'm fearing his spirits will fail him.
504
01:00:05,621 --> 01:00:08,635
Can't do that, isn't fair.
505
01:00:09,544 --> 01:00:11,595
It's the times darling.
506
01:00:11,908 --> 01:00:15,914
After a war people is always ready
to cut off the past and go forward.
507
01:00:17,383 --> 01:00:19,739
We're just the ones left behind, is all.
508
01:00:22,529 --> 01:00:26,784
Oh, but that's not your worry, Fiona darling.
509
01:00:27,392 --> 01:00:30,614
Your shoulders are too
narrow to be carrying all of that.
510
01:00:36,810 --> 01:00:38,172
It's not lifting at all.
511
01:00:38,845 --> 01:00:40,848
The mackerel won't see us coming then.
512
01:00:41,981 --> 01:00:43,869
It's not fish I'm talking about.
513
01:00:44,236 --> 01:00:47,413
We can't take this wee one out
with dirty weather coming up.
514
01:00:52,027 --> 01:00:55,409
- Oh, will clear, you'll see.
- So you're an expert now, are you?
515
01:00:56,161 --> 01:01:00,318
I'm sorry, but your grandmother would
never forgive me you took the chill.
516
01:01:00,482 --> 01:01:03,010
You'll see naught but gray
water on a day like this anyway.
517
01:01:03,174 --> 01:01:04,586
It's for the best.
518
01:01:07,393 --> 01:01:09,856
And be careful now, climbing up to the house.
519
01:01:18,039 --> 01:01:20,098
Wait, your sandwiches.
520
01:01:22,405 --> 01:01:23,866
Grandfather?
521
01:01:25,573 --> 01:01:26,723
Eamon?
522
01:01:44,015 --> 01:01:45,411
Is that you?
523
01:01:53,458 --> 01:01:55,379
Jax, I can't see you.
524
01:02:42,886 --> 01:02:45,119
Jax, is that you?
525
01:02:54,099 --> 01:02:55,672
Are you still there?
526
01:03:09,830 --> 01:03:12,933
Hello, is anybody out there?
527
01:03:19,237 --> 01:03:20,829
What's happening?
528
01:03:22,372 --> 01:03:23,874
Where are we going?
529
01:04:55,287 --> 01:04:57,054
Won't you come ashore with me?
530
01:05:28,951 --> 01:05:31,118
Jamie.
531
01:05:34,914 --> 01:05:38,492
Jamie, it's me, Fiona.
532
01:05:41,497 --> 01:05:43,615
Jamie.
533
01:05:45,979 --> 01:05:47,669
Jamie.
534
01:08:30,397 --> 01:08:32,074
Jamie.
535
01:08:38,361 --> 01:08:43,122
No Jamie, don't go, your sister.
536
01:08:51,888 --> 01:08:53,284
Jamie.
537
01:08:55,770 --> 01:08:57,033
Jamie.
538
01:09:04,364 --> 01:09:06,991
Why must you always run from me?
539
01:09:32,242 --> 01:09:35,998
I know you're out there
and I know you can understand me.
540
01:09:36,186 --> 01:09:40,946
Give him back, you hear? He's a
little boy, he belongs with his family.
541
01:09:41,456 --> 01:09:45,708
I know you've taken care of him
but he has to live with people now.
542
01:09:46,397 --> 01:09:50,025
I miss him so and so does
grandmother and grandfather.
543
01:09:50,206 --> 01:09:53,128
And all the rest, miss him terrible.
544
01:09:54,687 --> 01:09:57,478
If we came back, would you give him to us?
545
01:09:58,611 --> 01:10:02,699
If we came back here,
to Roan Inish? Is that what you want?
546
01:10:06,326 --> 01:10:08,034
Are you still there?
547
01:10:11,107 --> 01:10:12,717
Is that you Fiona?
548
01:10:14,675 --> 01:10:17,817
- We saw the fire.
- Grandfather.
549
01:10:33,738 --> 01:10:36,654
Christ Almighty Fiona,
we worried sick about you.
550
01:10:36,741 --> 01:10:40,754
I sat in the boat and it broke free
and seals just came from out of the fog.
551
01:10:40,962 --> 01:10:43,139
And I looked and looked but he wasn't there.
552
01:10:43,226 --> 01:10:45,663
There was smoke in the
chimney and Jamie was inside...
553
01:10:45,847 --> 01:10:49,032
having tea with a little
seal but then they ran away.
554
01:10:49,606 --> 01:10:53,304
- She's gone crazy with some kind of fever.
- I'm not sick.
555
01:10:53,334 --> 01:10:56,309
Well, how did you get
out here then? And slow, this time.
556
01:10:56,473 --> 01:10:59,285
In the boat, it drifted.
557
01:10:59,372 --> 01:11:02,288
There's no oars in it
Grandfather and look at this.
558
01:11:04,551 --> 01:11:07,785
He set a table inside, with
hells and all, you can see it.
559
01:11:08,736 --> 01:11:10,985
Someone is playing tricks
on us and it might be you.
560
01:11:11,198 --> 01:11:14,629
- I don't lie.
- I believe her Grandfather.
561
01:11:17,879 --> 01:11:19,783
It's a madness that runs in the family.
562
01:11:19,964 --> 01:11:22,574
He's in the cradle and
there's always seals about.
563
01:11:22,604 --> 01:11:26,533
That's from talking to that Tadgh,
isn't it? He put all this into your head.
564
01:11:26,563 --> 01:11:28,369
- But Grandfather...
- Not another word now.
565
01:11:29,091 --> 01:11:30,404
And get in that curragh.
566
01:11:31,045 --> 01:11:34,886
And I need silence to think up some
likely excuse for your grandmother.
567
01:11:43,358 --> 01:11:45,098
Seals, indeed.
568
01:11:54,427 --> 01:11:57,234
- Oh, good morning to you.
- Good morning.
569
01:11:57,644 --> 01:12:01,584
- Where's Grandfather?
- He's already into the pub this morning.
570
01:12:02,110 --> 01:12:05,442
And he'll be less likely to come out
as it was a black mood he left with.
571
01:12:06,115 --> 01:12:09,442
I gave him hard with my tongue
for taking you out yesterday.
572
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:12,025
Nothing bad happened.
573
01:12:13,929 --> 01:12:15,998
You know if Eamon is going
out in the motor boat today?
574
01:12:16,028 --> 01:12:19,166
Well, it doesn't matter whether he
is or not, you're not going with him.
575
01:12:19,713 --> 01:12:23,664
There's no need of the bleak ocean
for catching a dose of fresh air darling.
576
01:12:24,354 --> 01:12:28,558
- One day ashore won't kill you now, will it?
- No ma'am.
577
01:13:28,955 --> 01:13:30,001
Hello.
578
01:13:32,271 --> 01:13:35,474
- So have you seen him?
- Why is he run from me?
579
01:13:36,747 --> 01:13:40,529
- Why do you chase him?
- My brother, he's lost out there.
580
01:13:41,334 --> 01:13:45,865
Ah, isn't lost at all.
He's just with another branch of the family.
581
01:13:47,916 --> 01:13:49,629
Why you looking at me like that?
582
01:13:50,099 --> 01:13:53,809
I don't know whether to believe
you or not, people say you're daft.
583
01:13:56,059 --> 01:13:59,014
- They have their reason.
- Have you ever seen him?
584
01:13:59,982 --> 01:14:03,544
- Have you ever seen Jamie?
- Well, I may be daft girl...
585
01:14:05,993 --> 01:14:07,386
but I'm not blind.
586
01:14:28,717 --> 01:14:30,687
- Fisherman's bend.
- Right.
587
01:14:30,900 --> 01:14:34,643
- We've got to get them to move back.
- I don't see how.
588
01:14:34,955 --> 01:14:36,712
They're going to lose their house here.
589
01:14:37,598 --> 01:14:40,750
Nobody is been on the island
for years, it's derelict with weeds.
590
01:14:40,780 --> 01:14:42,608
The cottages is fallen to ruin.
591
01:14:42,638 --> 01:14:46,629
Bowline, the cottages aren't
so bad, I've been in them all.
592
01:14:46,659 --> 01:14:48,993
And didn't you say you
plan to move back, yourself?
593
01:14:50,024 --> 01:14:53,111
- When I'm a man.
- What's to stop you now?
594
01:14:54,346 --> 01:14:56,261
Grandmother will be the hard nugget.
595
01:14:56,476 --> 01:14:58,959
She worries awful about
our Grandfather's health.
596
01:14:59,645 --> 01:15:03,076
- Carrick bend.
- She'd move back for Jamie though.
597
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:05,048
In a minute, she would.
598
01:15:05,078 --> 01:15:07,468
Them that's caring
for him won't let him back...
599
01:15:07,469 --> 01:15:10,169
till they see we've returned, I'm sure of it.
600
01:15:10,314 --> 01:15:11,885
You've been speaking with the seals?
601
01:15:11,972 --> 01:15:16,749
Eamon, we could start with the
cottages, fixing them up, what you think?
602
01:15:18,046 --> 01:15:20,067
I'll meet you here with
Kenny Manion's boat in the morning.
603
01:15:20,154 --> 01:15:23,381
- I'll say we're off digging clams.
- Pull this for a deal.
604
01:15:24,169 --> 01:15:25,450
Granny's knot.
605
01:15:35,660 --> 01:15:37,187
Help me with this, will you?
606
01:15:49,548 --> 01:15:53,865
Oh, look at that, will you?
It's all our food floating away.
607
01:15:54,883 --> 01:15:56,311
We could row after it.
608
01:15:56,491 --> 01:16:00,412
Not without losing half the
day in the chase, come on then.
609
01:18:21,701 --> 01:18:23,228
Fiona.
610
01:19:04,449 --> 01:19:05,684
Look.
611
01:19:26,923 --> 01:19:30,384
Maybe could've tipped in
the waves and all spilled out.
612
01:19:31,237 --> 01:19:32,668
You think that's what happened?
613
01:19:38,312 --> 01:19:39,905
Not for a moment.
614
01:19:44,582 --> 01:19:46,815
And how did the muscle gathering go today?
615
01:19:47,028 --> 01:19:49,125
Oh, we worked wonders
with them. Didn't we Fiona?
616
01:19:49,219 --> 01:19:50,302
Was hard work.
617
01:19:50,490 --> 01:19:52,614
You be careful not to overtax yourself.
618
01:19:52,775 --> 01:19:55,962
Oh no, it's ever so good
for me. Look at my muscles.
619
01:19:56,580 --> 01:19:58,998
Well, it's improved your appetite anyway.
620
01:19:59,250 --> 01:20:01,959
You came in here as though
the hunger of the world was on you.
621
01:23:32,982 --> 01:23:34,804
We should plant some things up here.
622
01:23:35,645 --> 01:23:37,259
When we move back there'll be time.
623
01:23:38,818 --> 01:23:41,138
We better start back
Fiona, the tide won't wait.
624
01:24:34,515 --> 01:24:35,389
Mother?
625
01:24:49,869 --> 01:24:50,844
Your mother, is it?
626
01:24:51,591 --> 01:24:52,734
Where did she come from?
627
01:24:53,823 --> 01:24:55,215
Hasn't your father told you that?
628
01:24:55,570 --> 01:24:57,003
He doesn't like to speak of her.
629
01:24:59,733 --> 01:25:02,450
She came from Balleybofey,
back in the mainland.
630
01:25:03,507 --> 01:25:06,626
Traveling the hills in search
of a meal and a place to sleep.
631
01:25:07,971 --> 01:25:09,020
They was poor.
632
01:25:09,935 --> 01:25:12,618
Her father had no livelihood
with only his day's pay.
633
01:25:13,182 --> 01:25:14,513
And seldom he had even that.
634
01:25:15,703 --> 01:25:18,257
Well, they say the only true wealth is land.
635
01:25:18,856 --> 01:25:21,565
- Like we own Roan Inish?
- For all the good it does us.
636
01:25:21,814 --> 01:25:23,206
Oh quiet Hugh.
637
01:25:24,221 --> 01:25:27,771
Jimmy, your father was me
youngest and the dearest to me heart.
638
01:25:28,020 --> 01:25:29,795
Oh, but he was an airy boy.
639
01:25:30,568 --> 01:25:34,531
Bone lazy at times and at others
you'd never find a worker as keen as him.
640
01:25:35,287 --> 01:25:38,899
Like night and day, he was,
depending on the mood that struck him.
641
01:25:39,063 --> 01:25:41,384
Can't put a wise head on a young body.
642
01:25:41,574 --> 01:25:45,488
She was in Donegal town one day
for the pilgrimage on St. Brigid's day...
643
01:25:45,518 --> 01:25:49,601
which was her named Saint, 16 years of age.
644
01:25:49,798 --> 01:25:52,097
Beautiful, strong Christian girl.
645
01:25:52,261 --> 01:25:55,050
Oh, sun or stars never shown on a better one.
646
01:25:55,581 --> 01:25:58,662
I loved her like a daughter, our Brigid.
647
01:25:59,044 --> 01:26:00,571
And father was there?
648
01:26:00,881 --> 01:26:03,289
We'd a brilliant run
on the mackerel that year.
649
01:26:03,459 --> 01:26:06,414
Great patch of them,
shoaling up behind the island.
650
01:26:06,595 --> 01:26:10,026
Nor men were barely able to dip
their nets in the water fast enough.
651
01:26:10,935 --> 01:26:12,636
Your father and Matt Margonn...
652
01:26:12,866 --> 01:26:15,870
had gone off to the mainland to
try and sell what they had left over.
653
01:26:16,050 --> 01:26:18,972
First time he laid eyes on
Brigid she was leaving the church.
654
01:26:19,291 --> 01:26:21,698
And he was struck
speechless with the sight of her.
655
01:26:21,944 --> 01:26:25,999
Was the shyness of an island boy.
And she wasn't a worldly girl at all.
656
01:26:26,376 --> 01:26:31,219
But for Jimmy, any place off of
Roan Inish might've been Paris France.
657
01:26:31,956 --> 01:26:35,307
So, there he is, making honey
in his heart of her good looks...
658
01:26:35,782 --> 01:26:37,483
and meanwhile, she's just as struck.
659
01:26:37,719 --> 01:26:41,873
With him a big, handsome, powerful
lad with eyes that melted all the girls.
660
01:26:42,316 --> 01:26:46,289
And she's in a hundred pieces,
wondering what she could do to meet him.
661
01:26:46,568 --> 01:26:49,194
Did he speak to her? What did he say?
662
01:26:49,440 --> 01:26:51,985
Would you like to buy some fish Miss?
663
01:26:53,183 --> 01:26:55,022
And she said she'd love to.
664
01:26:55,219 --> 01:26:58,648
As she'd never tasted fish from
the salty ocean in all her life.
665
01:26:58,945 --> 01:27:01,670
But she hadn't a shilling
to her name to buy it with.
666
01:27:02,212 --> 01:27:03,946
They fell into talk and then...
667
01:27:03,947 --> 01:27:07,647
great with each other
immediately, as happens with the young.
668
01:27:07,731 --> 01:27:11,289
Remember the day she came?
Sitting in the back of the curragh.
669
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:13,372
And I says to Tess...
670
01:27:13,402 --> 01:27:17,071
will you look at the prize Matt
Margonn is brought back from Donegal.
671
01:27:17,531 --> 01:27:18,738
No, she says.
672
01:27:18,968 --> 01:27:21,872
For look at how Matt is got his
eyes straight ahead at the island...
673
01:27:22,151 --> 01:27:25,444
as our Jimmy is rowing, so
he won't let her out of his sight.
674
01:27:26,173 --> 01:27:30,493
From that day Jim had the name of
a steady husband and a hard worker.
675
01:27:31,262 --> 01:27:34,520
As fine as any that ever broke bread.
676
01:27:36,515 --> 01:27:38,945
She grew to love the island our Brigid.
677
01:27:40,155 --> 01:27:42,704
She was the last one
to marry onto Roan Inish.
678
01:27:44,083 --> 01:27:46,151
And the last one to die on it.
679
01:27:48,219 --> 01:27:50,878
He always blamed himself...
680
01:27:51,775 --> 01:27:54,096
for bringing her into the life of the sea.
681
01:27:56,230 --> 01:27:58,118
But life can be hard on the mainland too.
682
01:28:03,667 --> 01:28:05,310
Your hands is getting rough.
683
01:28:07,328 --> 01:28:09,227
It's pulling muscles that does it.
684
01:28:12,088 --> 01:28:13,812
Look at them clouds, will you?
685
01:28:14,633 --> 01:28:16,495
Gathering for a right blow tonight.
686
01:28:16,687 --> 01:28:20,920
Because be hell's own fury
for any creature caught without shelter.
687
01:28:21,593 --> 01:28:23,251
I hope Jamie comes in.
688
01:28:23,937 --> 01:28:25,582
What's that you're saying?
689
01:28:27,913 --> 01:28:30,901
I said I hope Jamie
comes in out of the storm.
690
01:28:31,606 --> 01:28:34,742
- What can you mean by that?
- I've seen him Grandmother.
691
01:28:35,166 --> 01:28:38,517
Ah, she just dreamed him up,
sleeping one day on Roan Inish.
692
01:28:38,731 --> 01:28:40,389
A wish can be a powerful thing.
693
01:28:40,751 --> 01:28:44,329
I saw him, once
on a hillside picking flowers...
694
01:28:44,494 --> 01:28:47,169
and once in the cottage
having tea with a seal.
695
01:28:48,843 --> 01:28:51,798
I'm not imagining it, I've seen him.
696
01:28:52,569 --> 01:28:56,201
He was without a stitch and then
he nipped away in his little cradle boat.
697
01:28:56,231 --> 01:28:58,528
It's the seals that's been looking after him.
698
01:29:02,078 --> 01:29:05,263
- The seals, is it?
- It's truth Grandmother.
699
01:29:12,116 --> 01:29:13,900
Well, it is.
700
01:29:17,918 --> 01:29:19,544
Oh dear.
701
01:29:25,387 --> 01:29:27,589
Oh, there's a box of
biscuits up there on the shelf.
702
01:29:27,619 --> 01:29:29,671
- Would you get it down for me love?
- Tess...
703
01:29:29,984 --> 01:29:33,447
Fiona, put the chickens in their
coop like a good girl, will you?
704
01:29:33,726 --> 01:29:35,975
- Is she alright?
- What's that you got there?
705
01:29:36,862 --> 01:29:39,833
Well, you don't want to sleep out
there on the cold ground now, do you?
706
01:29:39,863 --> 01:29:41,342
You look at that sky?
707
01:29:41,372 --> 01:29:44,839
I can read a sky as well
as you, there's a storm coming.
708
01:29:45,052 --> 01:29:47,543
And it's not weather to be
leaving a small boy outside in.
709
01:29:51,142 --> 01:29:53,210
I knew he wasn't gone from us.
710
01:29:53,949 --> 01:29:56,526
Holy Mother, I felt it all along.
711
01:29:57,085 --> 01:29:59,596
Now hurry on, will you? I'll get the lantern.
712
01:30:01,665 --> 01:30:04,193
And they say the Coneellys is the mad ones.
713
01:31:04,402 --> 01:31:06,143
Mind the bedding now Eamon.
714
01:31:06,477 --> 01:31:10,318
They'll end up damp in those wreaks
without a dousing of sea water.
715
01:31:18,377 --> 01:31:20,725
Now, what are you staring at now?
716
01:31:26,093 --> 01:31:27,947
Where's that Fiona got to?
717
01:31:28,326 --> 01:31:31,757
- I need her to help gather seaweed for soup.
- Tess...
718
01:31:32,775 --> 01:31:34,476
look what they've done.
719
01:31:39,735 --> 01:31:42,919
Oh, bless us, sweet Jesus.
720
01:31:54,060 --> 01:31:58,064
Now, this is a soup as only the women
of Roan Inish knows how to make.
721
01:31:58,338 --> 01:32:01,049
She learned it from
my mother, lord be good to her.
722
01:32:01,079 --> 01:32:04,871
Who got it from hers, who got
it from hers before that again.
723
01:32:06,246 --> 01:32:09,796
All the way back to the first Coneellys.
724
01:32:10,686 --> 01:32:13,817
And they learned it from
the dark woman, from Nuala.
725
01:32:17,432 --> 01:32:20,515
There's some has told it like that, yes.
726
01:32:21,647 --> 01:32:26,588
If you're out in dirty weather, it's like the
life blood flowing back into your veins.
727
01:32:30,019 --> 01:32:34,695
- Part of the backbone of a whale.
- Jamie brought it in.
728
01:32:37,391 --> 01:32:38,453
Well...
729
01:32:41,954 --> 01:32:44,794
You young ones did
a great job on this thatch.
730
01:32:46,809 --> 01:32:49,195
And it'll have its test in a few minutes.
731
01:32:50,147 --> 01:32:54,842
- South wind Grandfather.
- Aye, they're often the most fierce some.
732
01:32:58,421 --> 01:33:02,476
Jamie, poor little soul.
733
01:33:34,413 --> 01:33:35,825
It's the little seal.
734
01:33:57,403 --> 01:33:58,576
You feel it?
735
01:33:59,832 --> 01:34:03,050
- Like snuffing out a candle.
- Look.
736
01:34:20,778 --> 01:34:21,960
Jamie.
737
01:34:26,278 --> 01:34:29,807
Jamie, it's me Fiona,
we've come back for you.
738
01:34:32,811 --> 01:34:36,373
No Jamie, don't go, your family here.
739
01:34:43,103 --> 01:34:45,073
Don't frighten him dear.
740
01:35:16,339 --> 01:35:19,932
Heavenly Father, you look at
that, they're telling him to stay.
741
01:35:19,962 --> 01:35:22,807
But he's afraid, so afraid.
742
01:35:34,462 --> 01:35:36,267
Come on Jamie boy.
743
01:36:23,968 --> 01:36:26,430
There you go love.
744
01:36:39,037 --> 01:36:40,695
We'll be staying here now.
745
01:36:42,583 --> 01:36:43,945
Thank you.
746
01:37:09,337 --> 01:37:13,343
Oh Lord, love his little heart, he's hungry.
747
01:37:15,066 --> 01:37:17,857
How did you live out there? What did you eat?
748
01:37:18,153 --> 01:37:19,995
I wouldn't think he could answer you Fiona.
749
01:37:20,082 --> 01:37:22,748
I'll teach you to talk
and I'll tell you stories.
750
01:37:23,076 --> 01:37:27,016
Your friends that have been looking
after you, can see you anytime you like.
751
01:37:27,263 --> 01:37:29,526
Fiona is to thank for finding you Jamie boy.
752
01:37:30,480 --> 01:37:33,222
She gave me her word,
I just wouldn't believe it.
753
01:37:34,139 --> 01:37:37,244
Would you look at us, back in Roan Inish.
754
01:37:38,837 --> 01:37:42,465
It's like breathing fresh air after
being three years underground.
755
01:37:42,629 --> 01:37:45,631
You remember me Jamie? Your sister Fiona.
756
01:37:48,883 --> 01:37:50,217
Fiona.
757
01:37:53,265 --> 01:37:55,557
Ah, he's destroyed by the excitement.
758
01:37:56,450 --> 01:37:58,863
At least he'll sleep warm tonight.
64755
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