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8. Blessing

Maggie returns to Great Meadow, anxious to receive her father鈥檚 blessing to marry labourer Mark O鈥橠onoghue. Read by Lloyd Hutchinson.

Maggie returns to Great Meadow, anxious to receive her father鈥檚 blessing to marry labourer Mark O鈥橠onoghue.

Michael Moran鈥檚 life was forever transformed by his days of glory in the War of Independence. Now, a farmer in the Irish countryside, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.

However, as he grows older, his wife and daughters must confront how their own lives have been irrevocably shaped by this complicated and contradictory man.

An intimate story of a family living on the Irish border, under the thumb of a former soldier turned tyrant in his own home.

Written and abridged by John McGahern.

Read by Lloyd Hutchinson.

Producer: Celia de Wolff

A 成人快手 Northern Ireland production for 成人快手 Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2020.

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