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A little gem of a character study of an Irish family, dominated by the father, Michael Moran, who is known to his grown children and his second wife as "Daddy". His daughters and wife are at once adoring and afraid of him; his sons are less impressed.
Moran has a very strong sense of his own importance that stems partly from inheritance and partly from his own past glory in the Irish War of Independence. However, there's very little about the war. The story begins 25-30 years later.
It's a decept ...more
Moran has a very strong sense of his own importance that stems partly from inheritance and partly from his own past glory in the Irish War of Independence. However, there's very little about the war. The story begins 25-30 years later.
It's a decept ...more
So, Moran is an asshole. He’s a domineering emotionally abusive man who makes his wife and daughters spend their entire lives trying not to set off his temple and manage his moods for him. I read him as a man angry that options weren’t open for him - no school unless he was to become a priest even though he was clearly smart and no progression up the military ranks in spite of his talent, probably in my opinion as the result of the fact that the military was very class based. I assume he had a v
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Oct 13, 2007
Esceilenn
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Karen Michele Burns
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it was amazing
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