Wharton Releasing Corporation Records, ca. 1916–1923, Division of Rare and Manuscripts Collections, Cornell University Library. #3924 Box 1. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Note: Unsigned marginal annotations and insertions are given in italics. Deleted text is marked with strikethrough.
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Page 1 – Reel 1
MAIN Reel 1 (Art)
KNOCK-NA-GOW
or the
HOMES OF TIPPERARY
By Charles J. Kickham.
Subtitle 1
Kickham tells us in this soft
old pastoral story of the
friends and neighbours who
lived with him in the valley
of the lonely, mystic mountain
Slieve-Na-Mon.
Subtitle 2
Out
The Film Company of Ireland, Ltd.
announces that Knocknagow
is produced by arrangement with
James Duffy & Co. Ltd.
Copyright owners – Dublin
Copyright 1918 by Ellen Sullivan.
Subtitle 3
[2]
Produced by the
Film Company of Ireland
In Ireland
By Irish Men and Women.
Subtitle 4
Out
The rights of all productions
of the Film Co. of Ireland
are owned and controlled by
The Irish Film Co.
of America
Page 2 – Reel 1
Subtitle 5
As this old tale unfolds there
are waiting you neither soul
stirring thrills nor sensational
climaxes. We ask you to ram-
ble with us through the summer
days of long ago.
Come back in spirit to the
time when our great-grandfathers
faced a world that had little
to offer. We turn back the
pages of time to the Ireland
of “48” when Irish smiles broke
through every cloud of oppression.
Subtitle 6
Out
This story in a series of episodes
depicts the joys and sorrows of
the simple kindly folk who lived
in the homes of Tipperary seventy
years ago.
Subtitle 7 (Art) Fade in & out
Yet meet him
in his
cabin rude.
Fade in Subtitle 8 (Art) Fade out
Or dancing with
his dark haired Mary.
Page 3 – Reel 1
Fade in Subtitle 9 (Art) Fade out
Out?
“You’s swear they
knew no other mood
But mirth and
love in Tipperary”
Subtitle 10
“Yet meet him in his cabin rude
Or dancing with his dark haired Mary
You’d swear they knew no other mood
But mirth and love in Tipperary.”
Subtitle 11
Out
They speak friendly greetings
one day in old Kilthubber, not
knowing of the cloud
which, as yet lies low on the
horizon.
Subtitle 12
There was gentle
Mary Kearney.
Mary Kearney
Miss Nora Clancy
Subtitle 13
Daughter of Maurice and Mrs.
Kearney, prosperous tenants
on the Butler estate.
Maurice Kearney
Mr. Dermott O’Dowd
Mrs. Kearney
Miss Peg Casey
Page 4 – Reel 1
Subtitle 14
One day with her mother
at Tramore, Mary meets Arthur
O’Connor, who is studying theology.
Arthur O’Connor
Mr. Fred O’Donovan
Subtitle 15
And from that time on
the only thing heavenly that
Arthur studied was
the blue in Mary’s eye.
Spoken 1
“She is the sweetest girl in
Ireland, Arthur, struggling with
the poor about her, and making
their troubles her own.”
Father O’Carroll
Valentine Roberts.
Subtitle 16
Out
Arthur watches Mary from
the window, with the thought
of a different future, as his
mother talks.
Spoken 2
“It’s that girl who has disturbed his mind.”
Page 5 – Reel 1
Subtitle 17
Mrs. O’Connor confides to
Father O’Connor that her
heart is set on Arthur
entering the church.
Spoken 3
“The Kearneys live beyond that house.”
Spoken 4
He is Henry Lowe.
“He is the young man, Barney,
that is the nephew of our
new landlord Sir Garret Butler
had his heart in his
eyes when he saw our
Miss Mary at Traymore.”
Subtitle 18
Henry Lowe pays court to Mary Kearney
He came to her in the garden
and there was in the hearts of
both, the heart’s one song.
Subtitle 19
Arthur confides to Father
O’Carroll that he has no
vocation for the Priesthood.
Spoken 5
“Take up medicine my boy.
It’s a grand field and offers
a noble life to you.”
Page 6 – Reel 1
Subtitle 20
The good priest offers the
savings of years to educate
the lad he loves.
Subtitle 21
Arthur, though of high spirit,
accepts the help, feeling con-
fident of a full life of good work.
Subtitle 22
start of story
The Knocknagow drum ushers
in Christmas morning.
Subtitle 23
Henry Lowe, nephew to Sir
Garrett Butler, the new landlord,
is the guest of the Kearney’s at
the Christmas morning Mass.
Subtitle 24
Breakfast in the
Kearney home.
Subtitle 25
[BOXED]
Arthur gives Barney a letter
for Mary, in which he asks
[TEXT MISSING]
Page 7 – Reel 1
Subtitle 26
Barney forgets to deliver the
letter in the good company
he finds in the Kearney kitchen.
Spoken 6
[BOXED]
“That’s the ugliest foot
in Ireland, Barney”
Spoken 7
“I’ll be the price of
a pint it isn’t.”
Subtitle 27
[BOXED]
Barney shows his second foot and wins.
– End of reel #1 –
Subtitle 28
—
Not knowing that Barney has
failed to deliver his note, Arthur
waits in vain for Mary’s face at the window
—
Subtitle 29
Out
Whilst Mary and her
friends entertain
the young aristocrat
Mary all unconscious, makes one
of the happy circle, who
give welcome to Henry Lowe,
the young aristocrat.
Spoken 8
[BOXED]
“Since the death of Sir Thomas
and your Uncle’s inheritance of
Knocknagow, we have to deal
with the agent, Pender.
Did your uncle say anything
about renewing my lease?”
Spoken 9
[BOXED]
“He did not sir. You know he
is what you term an absent
landlord. I believes he leaves
full authority in Pender.”
Henry Lowe
Mr. George Larchett.
Spoken 10
“Sir Garrett refers me to Pender, and
his nephew confirms my fears that
Pender is becoming absolute master
here. It’s bad news for the poor
tenants and perhaps those of us
more fortunate.
Spoken 11
“It’s something nothing to worry
about my dear.”
END OF 1
Page 1 – Reel 2
MAIN Reel 2 (Art)
KNOCK-NA-GOW
of the
HOMES OF TIPPERARY
By Charles J. Kickham
Subtitle 1
Out
Arthur finally despairs and
ends his long wait at the
window.
Subtitle 2
– A late delivery –
Letter
Dear Mary
I am going away and am
giving up all thoughts of becoming
a priest.
If you have any interest in
me or my new plans, let me see your
face at your window to-day as I
depart.
Arthur O’Connor.
Subtitle 3.
The time was when Nora Lahy
then the happiest sprite in Knock-
Na-Gow made hope fill the big
heart of Billy Hefferman, the tall
turfman.
Nora Lahy Miss Kathleen Murryphy.
Billy Hefferman Mr. Breffni O’Rorke
Page 2 – Reel 2
Subtitle 4
Phil Lahy, the tailor, and his good
woman Honor, worried much these
days about Nora, who had been
ailing all the winter.
Phil Lahy Mr. Arthur Sheils ?
Honor Lahy Miss Brenda Burke
*
Subtitle 5
When Spring had mellowed
into warm Summer day, all
Knock-na-gow welcomed Nora
into the sunshine once again.
Subtitle 6
[BOXED]
Mat Donovan, affectionately known
as “Mat the Thrasher” with a heart
as stout as his arm, was the
finest lad in the country.
Mat Donovan …. Mr. Brian Magowan
Spoken 1
?
[BOXED]
“To reap and plow and sow
and be a farmers boy.”
Subtitle 7
[BOXED]
He loved Bessie Morris, but
her eyes wandered sometimes
from the laboring man.
Page 3 Reel 2
Spoken 2
[BOXED]
[LINES MISSING]
mother. Pender tells her that
Knock-na-gow is in a state of
disorder.
Spoken 3
[BOXED]
“You can do much for Knock-
na-gow, by telling your people
how honest and enduring they
are here.”
Spoken 4
“These Kearney’s whom you are
visiting are a bad influence
in Knock-na-gow. They dare
to come between me and the
beggarly tenants of the estate.”
Spoken 5
[BOXED]
“I believe the Kearneys despise
your methods and consider
that you are wantonly cruel to
the poor, Mr. Pender. But come …
you can show me what you
are doing with the place.”
Pender shows his handiwork to Henry Lowe
Spoken 6
“I am stocking these fields with sheep and cattle.”
Spoken 7
“But how about the people?”
Page 4 – Reel 2
Spoken 8 (Art)
“The cattle are more important, Sir.”
Subtitle 8
Phil Lahy’s only weakness led
him to seek “Nourishment from
imaginary ills out of a certain
black bottle”.
Spoken 9
“Phil, you may as well finish
Mat’s new coat. He’ll want it
for Ned Broghy’s wedding.”
Spoken 10
“Honor, I look very bad. It’s a
little nourishment I want.”
Spoken 11
“Sure, I’ve a bad pain Miss Mary.”
Subtitle 9
Honor shows Mary the kind
of nourishment Phil wants and
Mary beguiles him away from
temptation.
Spoken (Art)
“Come all you airy bachelors
a warning take by me ______
End of II
Page 1 – Reel 3
Spoken 1
“You’ll be the best dressed
man at the wedding, Mat.”
Subtitle 1
Pender, the evictor, casts
gloom into the humble home.
Spoken 2
“A light, damn you.” Out
Spoken 3
[BOXED]
“You’re a blackguard, sir, and
you’ll not speak amiss to a decent woman.”
Spoken 4
“Donovan, you’ve laid your hand
on me and I’ll crush you.
Bear me well in mind, I’ll
crush and break you!”
Subtitle 2
A bit of dipomacy.
Subtitle 3
Phil with a dry tongue, seeks
“another little Cruiskeen Lawn”.
Subtitle 4
Barney Broderick takes
charge of a cradle to be
delivered to Knock-na-Gow.
Subtitle 5
[BOXED]
And with this unusual article
brings up the rear of Ned
Brophy’s wedding party.
Subtitle 6
Mat unconscious of the clouds
gathering about, takes charge
of the wedding festivities.
Subtitle 7
The Kearneys do honor
to the happy event.
Subtitle 8
The dance in the barn.
Spoken 5
“To the Bride and Groom.
Long life and happiness
to the Brophys.”
End of Reel II
Subtitle 9
Lowe, of proud lineage, lays
his heart at the feet, of the Irish
farmer’s daughter.
Subtitle 10
While Mary, with her thoughts
on the lad who waited in
vain at the window, softly
says him nay.
Page 3 – Reel 3
Spoken 6
“We are beginning to-day the
evictions of Knock-Na-Gow, Derby,
so get your bailiffs.”
Spoken 7
“You can keep my fields, Pender,
but you cannot evict me.
I hold my house in freehold.”
Spoken 8
“Easy now, Donovan, no violence.
I entreat you, no violence.”
Spoken 9 (Art)
“There will be a stern reckon-
ing for this one day, Pender, if
not in our time, then when other
men will know how to deal
with this oppression.”
Subtitle 11
?
Mat leads the Knock-Na-Gow
boys in a hurling match.
Subtitle 12
?
Captain French, who had won
great honors as an athlete in
London, challenges Mat to the
throwing of the hammer.
Subtitle 13
The Contest.
End of III
Page 1 – Reel 4
Subtitle 1
The Captain’s great throw.
Subtitle 2
Mat leads by inches.
Subtitle 3
The Captain retaliates
with a new mark.
Spoken 1
“He’s a fine man at ’tis a pity
to beat him, but for the honor
of Knock-na-gow, I must win.”
Spoken 2
“Mat wins ———-
up Tipperary”
Subtitle 4
Billy visits Norah
Tommy tells Nora that Billy is
coming and the The angel invalid
smiles her welcome. to Billy
who tries to cheer her.
Spoken 3
“Take this gun, Wattletoes, to
Mat Donovan and have him
repair it, off on your way
sir, and no loitering.”
Spoken 4
“A gun to Donovan. I wonder
how I can turn this to account?
I wonder? will turn this to account!”
Subtitle 5
Barney, with an eye for the
fair stops to entertain Peg
Brady, and forgets his business.
Peg Brady …. Mrs Moira Breffni.
Subtitle 6
Peg has a good stroke.
Subtitle 7 (Art)
The Hunt! The Hunt!
End of Reel
Subtitle 8
The Brians are of the very
poor in Knock-na-gow and
yet the sun shines for them.
until one day.
Spoken 5
“My God! Pender and the
bailiffs are at our door.”
Until one day the heavy
hand of Pender falls upon
them
Subtitle 9
The eviction.
Spoken 6 (Art)
“Man hunting! .. Man hunting is
my game! I’m driving them from
the land and the country.”
Subtitle 10
The Brians homeless and hungry.
Subtitle 11
Mick leaves his wife and
child to get food.
Page 3 – Reel 4
Subtitle 12 (Art)
What hard fate denies even
Poverty’s crumb to a man
in his own county.
Subtitle 13
corrected title
Mick finds a gun instead of food.
Spoken 7
“I’ll kill that man Pender! By
my Maker, I’ll kill him!”
Subtitle 14
Mick, with murder in his
heart, looks in the Lahy
window in passing.
Subtitle 15
He sees Mick sees The the spiritual face of
poor Nora Lahy, telling, one
by one, her beads. diverts
Mick from his murderous purpose
Subtitles 16
Pender watches and
recognizes the gun.
Spoken 8
“Clean hands I’ll keep
God help me and mine.”
Subtitle 17
In the meantime Nellie Donovan
Mat’s sister comes to the help of
the Brians.
Page 4 – Reel 4
Spoken 9
?
“Look! Look! Mr. Kearney, Pender is
evicting Hogan and sure his boy
Jimmy Hogan has been named for
bravery in the Queen’s Army.”
Spoken 10
Hogan …….
It wasn’t me, sir, that fired
I’ve never handled a gun!”
Spoken 11
“Did you hear what he said?
He never fired a gun … a safe
man …. a very safe man to evict.”
Spoken 12
“God knows which one of us may
have his turn next. Bring your wife
and child to my place. Mick, you’ll
find shelter and food there.”
END OF IV
Page 1 – Reel 5
Subtitle 1
Billy lingers near Nora, whose
strength is failing day by day.
Subtitle 2
out
Father O’Carroll visits his
poor parishioners.
Subtitle 3
Alone in his cottage, while at
his simple meal, Billy realizes the
girl he loves is slowly dying.
Subtitle 4
His thoughts go back to the
day when in the joy of life
they crossed the “Anner” together.
Subtitle 5
Billy hHeffermnan, one day while
in Clonmel, meets the Dragoon
who courted Bessie Morris in
Dublin a year before.
Spoken 1
“Will you bring this package from me to Bessie Morris?”
out
Subtitle 6 (Art)
Billy, knowing that his friend
Mat loves Bessie, becomes
the reluctant messenger.
Page 2 – Reel 5
Spoken 2
“Sure Bessie,has the two
ways with her, but where is
the one of them that hasn’t.”
Subtitle 7
?
Mary with her friends in
the Kearney garden.
Subtitle 8 (Art)
out
Bessie pleased with the gold ear
drops shows them to Mary who gen-
tly reproves the serving girl.”
Spoken 3
“Mat Donovan is worth twenty
such men as this Dragoon Bessie.”
Subtitle 9
Peg Brady, anxious to separate
Mat and Bessie, works on Mat’s
feelings, by showing shows Mat an old letter
written by the Dragoon to Bessie
long ago, Mat believing it re-
lates to the present.
Letter
Dear Bessie
Meet me at the
usual place to-night.
I have something I wish
to tell you and ………………..
Page 3 – Reel 5
Spoken 4
“You’r not to meet that
soldier again, Bessie.”
Spoken 5
“You’ve no right to say
who I’ll meet, Mat.”
Spoken 6
“If that’s your mind, then
I’m off to America.”
Subtitle 10
The Dragoon, having left
the army is prowling near
Bessie’s home.
Subtitle 11
out
The Thrasher in action.
Subtitle 12
out
Pender watches Mat
punishing the Dragoon.
Subtitle 13
Mary Kearney listens to Bessie
Morris and comforts her.
Spoken 7
“Mat is unjust, Miss Mary, I never
encouraged that soldier man since
I met him in Dublin, over a year ago.”
Subtitle 14
Pender plans to rob himself
of Sir Garrett Butler’s rents.
Subtitle 15
Mat leaving home for America.
Subtitle 16
Brother and sister.
Mat takes levae of his sister
Nellie & starts for America
Subtitle 17
out
Making evidence of a crime.
Spoken 8
new
“I’ll throw Pender throws the box in the
pool with the gun.”
Spoken 9
out
“What curse is on this land of
ours, when men like Mat Donovan
are forced from its shores.”
Subtitle 18
out
Pender, realizing that Mat is leaving
the country, decides to charge the
young peasant with crime.
Spoken 10
“We will fasten robbery on this
Donovan. I’ll not have him escape
me. £100 for you, half now, and
the remainder when we have
him in Clonmel jail.”
Spoken 11 (Art)
out
“Good bye, dear Ireland, you are
a rich and rare island altho’ pov-
erty is forced upon you.”
Page 5 – Reel 5
Subtitle 19
Pender and the Dragoon charge
Mat Donovan with a robbery that
never took place.
Subtitle 20
Off for America.
Mat starts for Liverpool
on way to AmericaI
Subtitle 21
out
Mat and Barney part.
Subtitle 22
Pender describes for the
magistrate, how he ws sup-
posed to have been robbed.
END OF [INCOMPLETE]
Page 1 – Reel 6
Subtitle 1 (Art)
Change title
Barney is shanghied.
Barney after drowning his sorrows
awakes the following morning on
an outward bound ship
Subtitle 2
out
Collecting the evidence.
Subtitle 3
Maurice Kearney admits owning
the gun and that he sent it by
Barney to Mat Donovan for repair.
Spoken 1
“The man who robbed me
carried a gun.”
Spoken 2
“Where is Barney? He
probably could explain.”
Subtitle 4
out
Barney little dreaming that his
blunder in mislaying the gun
cast grave suspicion on Mat
Donovan, is making the most
of his enforced voyage
End of Reel
Subtitle 5
Cut to 1/3
Sir Garret Butler, isn far away
Italy, described to his daughter
that Knock-na-gow is a place
of sunshine and happiness.
Henry Lowe tells his uncle
about conditions in Knocknagow
Page 2 – Reel 6
Spoken 3
out
“Henry Lowe ……………….
You are wrong, Uncle, the man who
acts on your authority is driving
the poor from their hovels in Knock-na-
gow, that they may perish by the roadside.
Spoken 4 (Art)
“In your name and under your
authority, women and children are
thrown by the wayside, while their
poor homes are burnt to the ground.”
Subtitle 6
Mat, arrested in Liverpool
is brought home to face
Pender’s charge.
Spoken 5
?
“Pender says, that the man who
robbed him carried Maurice
Kearney’s gun.”
Spoken 6
“But Barney knows and can
prove he gave me no gun.”
Spoken 7
“Alas Mat, Barney Broderick
has disappeared and no one
knows where to find him.”
Subtitle 7
Scene out
The death shadow in
the Lahy cottage.
Page 3 – Reel 6
Subtitle 8
By the side of his dying
girl, Phil Lahy swears never
to touch drink again.
Subtitle 9
Nora Lahy hears a call and as the
linnet that never sang before, send
forth it’s thrilling notes.
Subtitle 10
As the song of the linnet ceased,
Nora Lahy was among her kindred
angels.
Spoken 8 (Art)
out
“I loved her, Nellie, ah
how I loved her!”
Spoken 9
“Sure I know Billy
we all loved her.”
Subtitle 11 (Art)
It’s Christmas again, but
Mat is in Clonmel jail.
Subtitle 12
?
out scene also
Mary is given Nora’s
old chair.
Spoken 10
“If this window only faced old
Slievenamon, Billy, I could stand
this imprisonment better.”
Page 4 – Reel 6
Spoken 11
“I’m going to my father in America
Miss Mary, will you tel lMat one
day, that I always believed in him
and that I know he is innocent.”
Subtitle 13
Barney Broderick back on
land enjoys a peep show.
Subtitle 14
Billy Heffermnan’s capture.
Subtitle 15
The captive Barney back
in Knock-na-gow.
Subtilte 16
Barney explains how he
lost the gun.
End of Reel
Spoken 12
“I want my fifty pounds.
Donovan is in jail and you
must keep to your bargain.”
Spoken 13
“Be off you ruffian or
I’ll have you with him.”
Subtitle 17
Pender’s infamy is discovered
and Mat Donovan’s innocence
established.
Page 5 – Reel 6
Spoken 14 (Art)
“A warrant for one
Isaac Pender.”
END OF VI
Page 1 – Reel 7
Subtitle 1 (Art)
The welcome home.
Spoken 1
out
Fellow Irishmen:-
Let us take to heart the lesson in
the vindication of Mat Donovan’s honor
and in the proof of his innocence.
We must cultivate under every dire
circumstance, patience and fortitude
to outlive every slander and to raise
above every adversity.
We are a normal people, above crime,
and a clean-hearted race must event-
ually come into its own; no matter
how long the journey; no matter
how hard the road.
Subtitle 2
Mary delivers Bessie’s
message to Mat.
Spoken 2
“Three cheers for Mat Donovan.”
Spoken 3
Mat………
“And three cheers boys for
Maurice Kearney, never too
prosperous to stand by his
own country and people.”
Page 2 – Reel 7
Subtitle 3
Peg confesses to Mat, that through
jealousy, she deceived him about
Bessie with an old Dublin letter.
Subtitle 4
Barney consoles Peg.
Subtitle 5
? out
Pender, unconscious that his
star is setting, pursues his busi-
ness of driving the people.
Spoken 4
“I’ve evicted the humbler ones
and now, damn you Kearney
it’s your turn to follow the
beggarly tribe.”
Spoken 5
“Here’s your money, man, you
cannot mean to take the home
of my father’s from me?”
Spoken 6
“Too late – you must go.”
Subtitle 6 (Art)
And then the absentee landlord arrived.
Spoken 7 (Art)
“The men of your class Sir are
guilty of starving people
in the midst of plenty.”
Page 3 – Reel 7
Spoken 8
“Forgive me Maurice I didn’t know!
Believe me, I didn’t know!”
Subtitle 7
Arthur, now a doctor tells
Father O’Carroll of his hope to
make Mary Kearney his wife.
Subtitle 8 (Art)
In an old trysting place
he found her.
Subtitle 9
And so one day with peace
in their hearts Arthur and Mary
look out on Slievenamon under
whose shadow they will live
together their lives.
Subtitle 10 (Art)
In the name of the law.
Subtitle 11
new [TEXT INDISTINCT]
On the boat for Liverpool.
Subtitle 12
Mat, step by step, traces Bes-
sie to America, and meets the
Lahys who tell him that she
lives in the “far west.”
Subtitle 13
In a pretentious home
he found her.
Page 4 – Reel 7
Spoken 9
“I thought Bessie that you might
be in danger in this new strange
land, but sure with your father’s roof
above your head and this fine
home, I was a foolish man, and
so …………. good-bye.”
Spoken 10
“But ah, Mat, you’ve something to
say to me that I want to hear.”
Spoken 11
“I’m a humble workman Bessie.
You’ve a nobleman’s heart, Mat, and …”
Subtitle 14
After many months of weary search
Mat returns
Then back to the humble home in
Ireland came Mat with his bride.
Bessie as his bride
to his humble home in Knocknagow
Spoken 12
“’Tis here in dear Ireland we
will grow old together dear
wife, I may not clothe you in
fine gowns, but I’ll wear you
always in my heart.”
Subtitle 15
The O’Connors one fine day
way back in dear old Tipperary
call on Mr. and Mrs. Mat Donovan.
Subtitle 16
Billy plays “Auld Lang Syne”.
Page 5 – Reel 7
Spoken 13
“Knock-na-gow is no more
but there are still happy homes
in Tipperary ….. thank God!”
Spoken 14 (Art)
out
“Yes, doctor, as a race we will
never be wiped out. A hundred
years from now you will find our
progeny here, a sturdy upstanding
people who will know what they
want and how to get the same.”
END OF VII
New Title to be Made for “KNOCK-NA-GOW”
Pender abuses Honor Lahy
about his lantern.
Titles to be made for “Knock-Na-Gow”
“That is Henry Lowe,
the nephew of our new
landlord, Sir Garret Butler.”
—
Mary was the magnet
that drew Henry Lowe
to the Kearney home.
—
Henry Lowe is the guest
of the Kearneys at the
Christmas morning mass.
—
Arthur waits in vain
for Mary’s face at
the window.
—
While Mary and her
friends entertain the
young aristocrat.
—
Mat was also the leader in play.
—
Pender shows his handiwork
to Henry Lowe.
—
The angel invalid smiles
her welcome to Billy,
who tries to cheer her.
—
The Brians are of the
very poor in Knock-Na-Gow
and yet the sun shines
for them.
—
Until one day the heavy hand
of Pender falls upon them.
—
Mick finds a gun
instead of food.
—
The spiritual face of poor
Nora Lahy, telling her
beads, diverts Mick from
his murderous purpose.
—
Pender recognizes the gun.
—
Peg Brady, anxious to
separate Mat and Bessie,
shows Mat an old letter
written by the Dragoon
to Bessie.
—
Mat takes leave of his
sister Nellie and
starts for America.
—
Pender throws the box in the pool with the gun.
—
Mat starts for Liverpool
on his way to America.
—
Barney, after leaving Mat,
drowns his sorrows and
awakes the following morning
on an outward bound ship.
—
Henry Lowe describes to his
uncle, Sir Garret Butler,
the condition of his tenants
in Knock-Na-Gow.
—
Mat starts for America to search for his sweetheart.
—
After many months of
weary search, Mat returns
with Bessie as his bride,
to his humble home in
Knock-Na-Gow
—
Titles remade
Arthur gives Barney a letter
for Mary, in which he asks
that she come to hear window
if she has any interest in him
as he leaves Knocknagow.
—
“That’s the ugliest foot
in Ireland, Barney.”
—
Barney shows his second
foot and wins.
—
“Since the death of Sir Thomas
and your Uncle’s inheritance of
Knocknagow, we have to deal
with the agent, Pender.
Did your uncle say anything
about renewing my lease?”
—
He did not sir. You know he
is what you term an absent
landlord. I believe he leaves
full authority in Pender.”
Henry Lowe
Mr. George Larchett
—
Mat Donovan, affectionately known
as “Mat the Thrasher” with a heart
as stout as his arm, was the
finest lad in the country.
Mat Donovan …. Mr. Brian Magowan
—
“To reap and plow and sow
and be a farmers boy.”
—
He loved Bessie Morris, but
her eyes wandered sometimes
from the laboring man.
—
“I have a letter here from my
mother. Pender tells her that
Knock-na-gow is in a state of
disorder.”
—
“You can do much for Knock-
na-gow, by telling your people
how honest and enduring they
are here.”
—
“I believe the Kearneys despise
your methods and consider
that you are wantonly cruel to
the poor, Mr. Pender. But come ,..
you can show me what you
are doing with the place.”
—
“You’re a blackguard, sir, and
you’ll not speak amiss to a
decent woman.”
—
And with this unusual article
brings up the rear of Ned
Brophy’s wedding party.
—
“Easy now Donovan, no violence.
I entreat you, no violence.”