Scene and Characters

SCENE: Some lonely mountainous district in the east of Ireland one or more centuries ago.

MARTIN DOUL, weather-beaten, blind beggar

MARY DOUL, his Wife, weather-beaten, ugly woman, blind also, nearly fifty

TIMMY, a middle-aged, almost elderly, but vigorous smith

MOLLY BYRNE, fine-looking girl with fair hair

BRIDE, another handsome girl

MAT SIMON

THE SAINT, a wandering Friar

OTHER GIRLS AND MEN

Act I

[Roadside with big stones, etc., on the right； low loose wall at back with gap near centre； at left, ruined doorway of church with bushes beside it. Martin Doul and Mary Doul grope in on left and pass over to stones on right, where they sit.]

MARY DOUL
What place are we now, Martin Doul?

MARTIN DOUL
Passing the gap.

MARY DOUL
-- [raising her head.] -- The length of that! Well, the sun‘s getting warm this day if it‘s late a

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