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"The 3ead" (1987) is a thoughtful drama adapted from a classic literary work, exploring themes of reflection, memory, and the passage of time. The story follows characters during a significant social gathering, highlighting relationships, personal insights, and the emotions that arise from meaningful conversations. With elegant performances, atmospheric settings, and careful attention to detail, the film emphasizes introspection, connection, and the subtle complexities of life. Viewers who enjoy literary adaptations, character-driven narratives, and reflective storytelling will appreciate the depth and nuance of this film.
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00:04:16The ladies' dressing room is upstairs
00:04:17Miss Kate and Miss Julie are waiting for you
00:04:19Thank you, Lily
00:04:20We'll see you upstairs, Ben
00:04:22Right, up here
00:04:23Miss Furlong
00:04:23Miss O'Callaughan
00:04:24And Miss Higgins
00:04:25Comin' up, Miss Kate
00:04:26Is it no sign of my nephew yet?
00:04:28No, ma'am.
00:04:29Where can Gabriel be?
00:04:31I just freed her head when she gets here before Freddie Mannance.
00:04:34Ah, Miss Callaghan, how delighted I am to see you.
00:04:39And you, Miss Furlong.
00:04:41And you, Miss Higgins.
00:04:43Oh, what a surprise to have Mary Jane's three favorite pupils all together.
00:04:47Come along.
00:04:49Where's Mary Jane?
00:04:50I have a present for her from Christmas.
00:04:52Yes, of course, you missed her lesson.
00:04:55Did you enjoy England?
00:04:56It was lovely.
00:04:57Well, Mary Jane will be up in a minute.
00:04:59Tell you the truth, she's basting the goose.
00:05:09Lily, while I'm upstairs, keep an eye on the potatoes and see they don't boil over.
00:05:13But who'll answer the door, Miss?
00:05:14I can't hear the bell from the kitchen.
00:05:16Good evening, Mr. Kerrigan.
00:05:17Good evening, Miss Malk, and I'd like to meet a friend of mine, Mr. Raymond Burr.
00:05:20How do you do, Mr. Burr?
00:05:21How do you do?
00:05:21I'm very glad you could come.
00:05:23Delighted to be here.
00:05:23Well, just pop down every few minutes and come straight up again, like a good girl.
00:05:29I have to lay the table, Miss.
00:05:31But do your best.
00:05:32Well, I'll try, but...
00:05:33Good evening.
00:05:36Good evening.
00:05:39Miss Kate, Miss Julia Malkin.
00:05:42May I present Mr. Raymond Burr and Mr. Joseph Kerrigan, who was so good as to escort us here tonight.
00:05:48How do you do?
00:05:49Well, it's a great pleasure to meet friends of any of Mary Jane's young ladies.
00:05:53Thank you for having us.
00:05:54I do appreciate it this morning.
00:05:55I think I remember you from last year, Mr. Kerrigan.
00:05:58Julia, don't you remember Mr. Kerrigan from last year?
00:06:01Yes, of course.
00:06:02Of course.
00:06:03All right.
00:06:04Do you want to go into the dancing first, or do you want to have a refreshment?
00:06:07Dancing, please.
00:06:08To warm us up.
00:06:09That, to be sure, after your cold ride.
00:06:11Mr. Callahan.
00:06:13Who's that, though, Lily?
00:06:14Mr. Brown.
00:06:15Just Mr. Brown.
00:06:16You've wanted me enough for you.
00:06:18More than enough, Dan.
00:06:20I'm sure Freddy's stewed.
00:06:22Oh, I'm sure he is.
00:06:24And when he's stewed, he's so hard to manage.
00:06:26Quite impossible.
00:06:28Whatever will we do?
00:06:31Well, whoever's giving away gifts chose the right day for it.
00:06:34Sure, it's the Feast of the Epiphany.
00:06:36The Three Kings, the Star in the East.
00:06:39Why, right, you should have gold, frankincense, and mirror in that.
00:06:42Well, whatever it is, it smelled nice.
00:06:44It's some special toilet soap from Bond Street.
00:06:47How thoughtful of you.
00:06:49Well, frankincense and mirror from London's West End.
00:06:52Miss Julia.
00:06:52Oh, how lovely.
00:06:54Oh, thank you, Dan.
00:06:56How are you, Dan?
00:06:57Well, I'm quite good out.
00:06:58Why, what's the matter?
00:06:59To find out that you'll be waiting for somebody other than me to arrive, I ask you.
00:07:03We're worried about Freddy.
00:07:05But he's taken the pledge.
00:07:06Are you sure?
00:07:07Of course I am.
00:07:08His mother made him on New Year's Eve.
00:07:10Oh, that's funny.
00:07:11She never said a word about it.
00:07:12She arrived here over an hour ago.
00:07:14Well, he might have succumbed.
00:07:15Oh, if he has, can I call on you?
00:07:17You know what he's like.
00:07:18Of course you can.
00:07:22I'll bet even money that's him now.
00:07:25Oh, Mr. Conneroy.
00:07:26Miss Kate and Miss Julie thought you were never coming.
00:07:29Good night, Mrs. Conneroy.
00:07:30Good night, Lily.
00:07:30Well, in case they did.
00:07:31But let's forget that my wife here takes three mortal hours to dress herself.
00:07:35Who's that now, Lily?
00:07:42Miss Kate, here's Mrs. Conneroy.
00:07:44Thank the Lord you've arrived.
00:07:45You must be perished alive.
00:07:48Aunt Kate.
00:07:49Here.
00:07:50Is Gabriel with you?
00:07:51Here I am, Aunt Kate.
00:07:53Tighten the mail.
00:07:54I'll be up in a moment.
00:07:55I'm very balanced, I guess.
00:07:57Oh, is that all right?
00:07:58Is it snowing again, Mr. Conneroy?
00:08:02It is, Lily.
00:08:03And I'm afraid we're in for a night of it.
00:08:07Come in, Lily.
00:08:09Are you still going to school?
00:08:10Oh, no, sir.
00:08:11I'm done schooling this year and more.
00:08:12Good Lord.
00:08:13It seems like only yesterday.
00:08:16You were playing with your rag dolls on the front steps.
00:08:19And now, as well, we'd be going to your wedding one of these fine days.
00:08:23The men that is now is only all palaver.
00:08:25And what they can get out of you.
00:08:27Oh, Lillian.
00:08:28It's Christmas time, isn't it?
00:08:29Oh, no, sir.
00:08:30Really, sir.
00:08:30I wouldn't take that, sir.
00:08:32It's Christmas time.
00:08:34Oh, really, sir.
00:08:35Christmas time.
00:08:35Christmas time.
00:08:36Christmas time.
00:08:37Christmas time.
00:08:38Christmas time.
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00:08:50Christmas time.
00:08:51Christmas time.
00:08:52Christmas time.
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00:08:54Christmas time.
00:08:55Christmas time.
00:08:56Christmas time.
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00:08:58Christmas time.
00:08:59Christmas time.
00:09:00Christmas time.
00:09:02One feels that one is listening to a thought-tormented music.
00:09:10We've taken a room at the Gresham.
00:09:12It's the first time I've stayed in a hotel in four years.
00:09:15Let's be sure. By far the best thing to do.
00:09:18And you're not anxious about the children, Ritter?
00:09:21Offer one night.
00:09:22Besides, best you'll look after them.
00:09:25I'll be sure.
00:09:27What a comfort it is to have a girl like that.
00:09:29One you can depend on.
00:09:31There's that lily.
00:09:33I don't know what's come over her lately, but she's not the girl she was at all.
00:09:37Oh, here he is, lurking in the corridor.
00:09:39Like a little boy sent out of class.
00:09:41What's up with you at all, Gabriel?
00:09:43He's only concerned about his speech, Aunt Kate.
00:09:45He's been fretting about it for days.
00:09:47Nonsense. He made a wonderful job of it in the past.
00:09:49This will be fine, Gabriel, just fine.
00:09:52I bet you'd both like a nice warm glass of punch.
00:09:55Ah, yes, please. You know, it's really bitter out.
00:09:58The weather tells me you're not going to take a cab back to Monkstone.
00:10:02No, we had quite enough of that last year, hadn't we?
00:10:06Cab windows rattling all the way and an east wind blowing in as soon as we were past Merriam.
00:10:11Very jolly it was.
00:10:12That's for Greta here.
00:10:13She'd walk home in the snow if she were there.
00:10:16Oh, don't mind her, Aunt Kate.
00:10:17He's really an awful bother.
00:10:19But with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do the dumbbells
00:10:23and forcing Eva to eat the stir about the poor child.
00:10:26She simply hates the sight of it.
00:10:28Oh, but she'll never guess what he has me wearing now.
00:10:32Galoshes. That's the latest.
00:10:34Whenever it is wet underfoot, I must put on my galoshes.
00:10:38Tonight, even, he wanted me to put them on, but I wouldn't.
00:10:42The next thing he'll buy me will be a diving suit.
00:10:46Isn't that the limit?
00:10:47But what are galoshes, Gabriel?
00:10:50Oh, goodness gracious, Julia.
00:10:52Don't you know what galoshes are?
00:10:54You wear them over your, uh, your boots, isn't it, Greta?
00:10:58Right, got a perch, thanks.
00:11:00We both have a pair now.
00:11:02Gabriel says everyone wears them on the continent.
00:11:04Oh, on the continent.
00:11:09Where's Julia going?
00:11:12Julia?
00:11:12I'm on my...
00:11:13Here's Freddy, Kate.
00:11:15Slip down, Gabriel, and see if he's all right.
00:11:18Don't you let him appear if he's, if he's strewed.
00:11:20Oh, he's drunk, I'm certain of it.
00:11:24All night we've been training that he would arrive here under the influence.
00:11:29It's such a relief for Gabriel is here.
00:11:32I always feel easier in my mind when it's around.
00:11:44Oh, Mrs. Conroy.
00:11:45May I introduce you to Mr. Barton, Darcy?
00:11:48Oh, the celebrated tenor.
00:11:50Would you fear to dance, Mrs. Conroy?
00:11:51I'd be honored.
00:11:57I was fortunate enough to attend your last concert towards Queen to the concert.
00:12:30Steady now, pretty steady
00:12:37Fine, fine, fine, fine
00:12:39Is my mother here?
00:12:42She is
00:12:43How do I look? Do I look all right?
00:12:47It is shuffled
00:13:00Now you'll pass, muster
00:13:15Oh, if you'll excuse me
00:13:19See, I've never been able to relieve myself
00:13:22In the presence of another
00:13:24Otherwise I'd have joined the army
00:13:25Even as a child
00:13:27When you must have
00:13:28The same was true
00:13:30Of my father before me
00:13:31When he went racing
00:13:33He'd wait until the horses were running
00:13:35To go to the lavatory
00:13:36Anything under a mile
00:13:38And he'd miss the finish
00:13:39He's not so bad, is he?
00:13:46Oh, no, no, no
00:13:47Barely noticeable
00:13:48Isn't he a terrible fellow
00:13:50After his poor mother
00:13:51Making him take the pledge on New Year's Eve
00:13:53It's a wonder he lasted the six days
00:13:55If he did
00:13:56Tell me, what's that
00:14:00Lovely waltz you were playing
00:14:01It's beautiful, isn't it?
00:14:02It's one of Moore's melodies
00:14:04I thought I recognized it
00:14:06There's no doubt
00:14:07But Moore's the one genius
00:14:08Of Irish music
00:14:09Oh, should God help me
00:14:11It's the doctor's art
00:14:12Oh, no, Mr. Brown
00:14:13I'm sure the doctor
00:14:14Never ordered anything of the kind
00:14:16I'm like the famous
00:14:17Mrs. Cassidy
00:14:18Who's reported to have said
00:14:19Now, Mary Grimes
00:14:20If I don't take it
00:14:21Make me take it
00:14:22For I feel I want it
00:14:23I don't suppose
00:14:28Either of you two Bocos
00:14:29Know
00:14:29What won the big race
00:14:30At Pontchistown
00:14:31Hello, Mrs. Mallins
00:14:40How are you getting along?
00:14:43Fine, thanks, Mr. Conno
00:14:45Just fine
00:14:46Anything I can get you
00:14:48No, thanks
00:14:49I'm grand
00:14:49My boy, Freddy, here, is he?
00:14:54Yes
00:14:55How is he?
00:14:58Is he all right?
00:15:00He's nearly all right
00:15:01That bad
00:15:03Oh, he's not to be trusted
00:15:05Out of my sight
00:15:07Quadrilles
00:15:08Two gentlemen
00:15:08And three ladies
00:15:09Here's Mr. Duffy
00:15:11And Mr. Egan
00:15:12Oh, Mr. Egan
00:15:13Will you take Miss Power?
00:15:14Miss Furlong
00:15:15May I get you a partner?
00:15:16Mr. Duffy
00:15:17That'll just do now
00:15:18Three ladies
00:15:19Oh, Miss Daly
00:15:21You're really awfully good
00:15:22After playing for the last two dancers
00:15:24But really
00:15:24We're so short of ladies tonight
00:15:26I don't mind
00:15:27I suppose you enjoy
00:15:29Living in Glasgow now
00:15:30Sure, why wouldn't I?
00:15:32Sure, my daughter
00:15:33Got some lovely little house
00:15:35At the edge of the city
00:15:36Just where the tram starts
00:15:38Oh, it's a great joy to me
00:15:40To meet with the children
00:15:42How old are they now?
00:15:45Well, little bird's just rising seven
00:15:47While Karen is five and abyss
00:15:50As your children are perfect at that age
00:15:54As you know
00:15:55Indeed
00:15:56And I've got my own little room there
00:15:59On the ground floor
00:16:01Overlooking the garden
00:16:03So I don't need to be climbing the stairs
00:16:06Have you heard the latest
00:16:09About old man Gallagher
00:16:12And the young one?
00:16:13No, what have they been up to now?
00:16:15Well, you see
00:16:15Her mother came up from the farm
00:16:18In Sligo
00:16:19And she brought with her
00:16:21This great big basket
00:16:23You see
00:16:24And she left it on the kitchen table
00:16:26And when Gallagher came in
00:16:29By himself
00:16:30He thought he saw it move
00:16:32What do you think she had in it?
00:16:35I've no idea
00:16:36Well, you see
00:16:36The sow has only farrowed
00:16:38The week before
00:16:39And it was the runt
00:16:41Of the litter
00:16:42And as they hadn't had any children
00:16:45She thought she'd bring them
00:16:46A piglet for company
00:16:47For the young one
00:16:49To practice on
00:16:50In the meantime
00:16:51Every year
00:17:03My son-in-law
00:17:04Takes us all
00:17:05On holiday
00:17:06For a fortnight
00:17:07At a hotel
00:17:08In the highlands
00:17:10Where he can go fishing
00:17:11Oh, he's a great fisher altogether
00:17:15He even ties his own flies
00:17:18And one day
00:17:19One day
00:17:20He caught a fish
00:17:22Oh, the most beautiful
00:17:24Big fish you ever saw
00:17:26And the man in the hotel
00:17:28Boiled it
00:17:29For our dinner
00:17:30How interesting
00:17:31I think the man said
00:17:33That it was
00:17:33I think
00:17:34I'll try and find Freddy
00:17:35For you
00:17:35Some sort of trout
00:17:37Can you imagine
00:17:39Old man
00:17:40Gallagher
00:17:41With a piglet
00:17:42For company
00:17:42Freddy
00:17:43Your mother's looking for you
00:17:45Now you should go in
00:17:46Into the valley of death
00:17:49Road to 600
00:18:11Omar
00:18:22Where were you?
00:18:24We were supposed to meet
00:18:25For a tea
00:18:26At the Shelbourne
00:18:27Sorry
00:18:28I
00:18:29I was detained
00:18:30What
00:18:31Detained?
00:18:34I was at a committee meeting
00:18:36A committee meeting?
00:18:37Where was it?
00:18:38In Mulligan's pub
00:18:39Attention everybody
00:18:42Now, as our Mary Jane
00:18:45Has so many of her young
00:18:47And talented students
00:18:48Here tonight
00:18:48I hope you'll all join with me
00:18:50In prevailing upon her
00:18:51To give us a small demonstration
00:18:53Of her musical skills
00:18:55Thank you
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00:19:07There's the organ somewhere
00:19:08This is the Gabriel
00:19:08Yes
00:19:09Haddington Road
00:19:10What did I tell you?
00:19:11That's of an old jar
00:19:12Sorry
00:19:14Thank you
00:19:15I
00:19:16I
00:19:17I
00:19:18I
00:19:19I
00:19:19will
00:19:22Let me
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00:21:12And now, let us have a recitation.
00:21:31Mr. Grace, would you pick Ila's yes again?
00:21:39That's me.
00:21:40I have to perform.
00:21:43Thank you, Kate.
00:21:46Ladies and gentlemen, I had intended doing a comic recitation for you this evening, but I came across something recently that I would very much like to pass on to you.
00:22:04It is called Broken Bows.
00:22:08It is late last night.
00:22:15The dog was speaking of you.
00:22:18The snipe was speaking of you in her deep marsh.
00:22:23It is you are the lonely bird throughout the woods, and that you may be without a mate until you find me.
00:22:35You promised me, and you said a lie to me, that you would be before me where the sheep are flocked.
00:22:45I gave a whistle and three hundred cries to you, and I found nothing there but a bleating lamb.
00:22:54You promised me a thing that has hard got you, a ship of gold under a silver mast, twelve towns, and a market in all of them, and a fine white court by the side of the sea.
00:23:15You promised me a thing that is not possible, that you would give me gloves of the skin of a fish, that you would give me shoes of the skin of a bird, and a suit of the dearest silk in Ireland.
00:23:36My mother told me not to be talking with you.
00:23:41Today, or tomorrow, or on Sunday.
00:23:48It was a bad time, she took, for telling me that.
00:23:53It was shutting the door after the house was robbed.
00:24:01You have taken the east from me.
00:24:06You have taken the west from me.
00:24:11You have taken what is before me, and what is behind me.
00:24:18You have taken the moon.
00:24:22You have taken the sun from me.
00:24:27And my fear is great.
00:24:31It's a translation from the Irish, by Lady Gregory.
00:24:50It's very strange, but beautiful.
00:24:54I've never heard anything like it.
00:24:56Very mysterious.
00:24:57Imagine being in love like that.
00:25:00I thought it was beautiful.
00:25:02It was lovely.
00:25:03It would make a lovely song.
00:25:05Yes, Lily, what is it?
00:25:17The goose will be ready in half an hour, ma'am.
00:25:19Very good.
00:25:19And ma'am, I just put fresh towels in the toilet.
00:25:23Very good, Lily.
00:25:24Now back to the dancing.
00:25:28Lancers.
00:25:30I think it's about time you had to dance.
00:25:32Now come along the beat.
00:25:33I have the perfect partner for you.
00:25:36Miss Ivers, I think you know my nephew.
00:25:38He hasn't broken out of a walk since he came through that door.
00:25:41I'm relying on you to give him a little tap behind the ribs.
00:25:44I'll be delighted.
00:25:45I think a canter would do him good.
00:25:50I'll crow to talk with you.
00:25:53Me?
00:25:54Uh-huh.
00:25:55Who is GC?
00:25:58I have found out that you write for the Daily Express.
00:26:02Now aren't you ashamed of yourself?
00:26:05Oh, why should I be ashamed of myself?
00:26:06Well, I'm ashamed of you.
00:26:08Say you'd write for an English rag like that.
00:26:11I didn't think you were a West Briton.
00:26:13Oh, what do you mean, a West Briton?
00:26:15Someone who looks to England for our salvation instead of depending on ourselves alone.
00:26:45Why don't you come for an excursion to the Aran Isles this summer?
00:26:56We're going to stay there a whole month.
00:26:58It'll be splendid out of the Atlantic.
00:27:02You ought to come.
00:27:04Mr. Clancy's coming.
00:27:07Mr. Kelly.
00:27:08Kathleen Carney.
00:27:09It'll be splendid for your wife, too, if she could come.
00:27:14She's from that part of the world.
00:27:17Conrad, isn't she?
00:27:18Her people are.
00:27:19But you will come, won't you?
00:27:20Now, the fact is, I've already arranged to go on.
00:27:23Go where?
00:27:24Well, every year I go on a cycling tour with some fellows.
00:27:27But where?
00:27:28Well, France or Belgium or Germany, perhaps.
00:27:30And why do you go to France and Belgium instead of visiting your own land?
00:27:35Well, it's partly to keep in touch with the languages and partly for a change.
00:27:39Haven't you your own language to keep in touch with?
00:27:42Irish.
00:27:43Oh, no, if it comes to that, Irish is not my language.
00:27:46Haven't you your own land to visit that you know nothing of?
00:27:49Your own people?
00:27:50Your own country?
00:27:51To tell you the truth, I'm sick of my own country.
00:27:54I'm sick of it.
00:27:55Bye.
00:27:57There we are.
00:28:00Why?
00:28:01Of course, you have no answer.
00:28:07West Britain!
00:28:08No, I mean it.
00:28:32Come on, Leslie.
00:28:33Ladies and gentlemen,
00:29:03We are gathered here.
00:29:05I will not try to think.
00:29:08I will not attempt.
00:29:10It is my name.
00:29:10Gabriel, and Kate wants to know, won't you carve the goose as usual?
00:29:14Miss Delia carve the ham and I'll do the pudding.
00:29:17All right.
00:29:18Why did you stop dancing?
00:29:19What row had you with Molly Ivers?
00:29:21No, no row.
00:29:22Why did she say we had?
00:29:23No, I noticed you're carrying on, that's all.
00:29:26I'm trying to get that Mr. Darcy to sing.
00:29:29He's full of conceit, I think.
00:29:30There was no row.
00:29:31She wanted me to go on a trip to the west of Ireland, and I said I wouldn't.
00:29:34Oh, Gabriel, do go.
00:29:36I'd love to see Galway again.
00:29:39You can go if you like.
00:29:42Attention, ladies and gentlemen.
00:29:44My sister, Miss Julia Morgan, after much coaxing, has consented to sing a song, one of her favorites, from her concert days, Arrayed for the Bridal.
00:29:56Arrayed for the Bridal by Bellini.
00:30:11Arrayed for the Bridal, in beauty behold her.
00:30:32A white, red, red, twilight, a red, more fair.
00:30:42I envy the surfers that softly enfold her.
00:30:56Hold her.
00:30:58Hold her.
00:31:02Hold her.
00:31:03Enfold her.
00:31:09And play with the looks of her beautiful hair.
00:31:21Arrayed for the Bridal, in beauty behold her.
00:31:23Arrayed for the Bridal, in beauty behold her.
00:31:28Arrayed for the Brody behold her.
00:31:49In beauty behold her.
00:31:53Hold her in folder
00:32:09And play with the love of her beautiful hair
00:32:23I was just telling my mother
00:32:36I never heard you sing so well
00:32:40No, I never heard your voice
00:32:43So, so, so good
00:32:47As it is tonight
00:32:48Now, do you believe that?
00:32:51No, that's the truth
00:32:52Upon my word of honour
00:32:54That is the truth
00:32:56I never heard your voice
00:32:59So, so clear
00:33:01So fresh
00:33:04Never
00:33:05You'll turn my head
00:33:08All your compliments
00:33:10Miss Julia Borkham
00:33:12My latest discovery
00:33:14Now, Brown
00:33:16If you are serious
00:33:18You might make a worse discovery
00:33:20Because all I can say is
00:33:23I never heard her sing half as well
00:33:28As long as I am coming here
00:33:30And that is the honest truth
00:33:33Neither did I
00:33:34I think her voice has greatly improved
00:33:37Thirty years ago
00:33:39I hadn't a bad voice
00:33:40As voices go
00:33:42Oh, I often told Julia
00:33:44She was thrown away on that choir
00:33:46But she never would be said by me
00:33:48No, she never would be said or led by anyone
00:33:52Slaving away their night and day
00:33:55Night and day
00:33:56Six o'clock on a Christmas morning
00:33:58And for what?
00:34:00Well, isn't it for the honour of God, Aunt Kate?
00:34:02I know all about the honour of God, Mary Jane
00:34:05I don't think it's very honourable of the Pope
00:34:07To throw the women out of the choirs
00:34:09That's been there for years
00:34:11Slaving away
00:34:12And put little whippersnappers of boys over their heads
00:34:15Well, I suppose it is for the good of the Church
00:34:20If the Pope says so
00:34:21But it's not right
00:34:21And it's not just
00:34:23Now, Aunt Kate
00:34:24You're giving scandal to Mr. Brown
00:34:25Who's of the other persuasion
00:34:27Oh, I don't question the Pope's being right
00:34:32I'm just a stupid old woman
00:34:34I wouldn't presume to do such a thing
00:34:36But there is such a thing as
00:34:40Common, everyday politeness and gratitude
00:34:43And if I were in Julia's place
00:34:46I'd just tell that Father Healy
00:34:48Straight up into his face
00:34:50Besides, Aunt Kate
00:34:51We really are all hungry
00:34:53And when we are hungry
00:34:55We are all very quarrelsome
00:34:56And when we are thirsty
00:34:58We are all so quarrelsome
00:34:59So that we had better go to supper
00:35:00And finish the discussion afterwards
00:35:02Of course
00:35:03Will all the gentlemen
00:35:05Please bring a chair
00:35:06Oh, fine
00:35:22You're not leaving, are you?
00:35:25Yes, I must
00:35:26But you can't go before supper
00:35:27But I'm not in the least bit hungry
00:35:29I assure you
00:35:30Oh, but only for ten minutes, Molly
00:35:31Surely that won't delay you
00:35:33To take a pick itself after all your dancing
00:35:35I really can't
00:35:36Well, if you really are obliged to go
00:35:38I'd be glad to see you home
00:35:39I'm not going home
00:35:40I'm off to a meeting
00:35:41What kind of a meeting?
00:35:43A union one at Liberty Hall
00:35:45James Connolly is speaking
00:35:48And you mean a Republican meeting?
00:35:50Uh-huh
00:35:50Well, you're the comical girl, Molly
00:35:52She'll be the only woman there
00:35:54She'll be the only woman there
00:35:54It won't be the first time
00:35:56Well, good night all
00:35:58Ballot live
00:35:59Everybody's in here
00:36:02Stage to let
00:36:03And nobody to carve the goose
00:36:05Oh, here I am
00:36:06I'm Kate
00:36:06Ready to carve a flock of geese
00:36:08If necessary
00:36:09Bless us, O Lord
00:36:24And these thy gifts
00:36:25Which of thy bounty
00:36:26We are about to receive
00:36:28Through Christ our Lord
00:36:29Amen
00:36:30Amen
00:36:30Amen
00:36:31Oh
00:36:31Oh
00:36:32Oh
00:36:32Look at that
00:36:35Miss Taley
00:36:38What shall I send you?
00:36:40Wing
00:36:40Or a slice of breast
00:36:41A small slice of breast
00:36:43That's, uh, Mr. Brown
00:36:46Who's this?
00:36:50That's yours then
00:36:52Mr. Grace
00:36:54Oh, thank you
00:36:55Thank you
00:36:55Is this mine?
00:36:58Yes
00:36:59I mean, it's far along
00:37:05It's far along
00:37:06What will you have?
00:37:06Oh, anything
00:37:07It's all, Mr. Conrad
00:37:08You've got to start
00:37:10Eating immediately
00:37:11That goose was not cooked
00:37:13To get cold
00:37:13Standing in front of you
00:37:14Well, everything
00:37:16Looks absolutely delicious
00:37:18Miss Morkhan
00:37:18It's not too dry
00:37:20Is it?
00:37:21It looks splendid
00:37:23Miss Morkhan
00:37:23Normally I'm not at all
00:37:24That partial to goose
00:37:25Usually it's so tough
00:37:27But in this case
00:37:28I take back all my
00:37:29Former judgment
00:37:29You know that I have
00:37:33Always preferred goose
00:37:34To turkey
00:37:34Turkey to me
00:37:36Tastes like chicken
00:37:37Soaked in water
00:37:38And then
00:37:38Wrong out
00:37:39Ah, the older we get
00:37:40The more flavor we like
00:37:42Where's the applesauce?
00:37:44I'm sorry
00:37:45There isn't any
00:37:45No applesauce
00:37:47I told you we should have
00:37:48Applesauce
00:37:49Plain roast goose
00:37:50Without applesauce
00:37:51Has always been good enough
00:37:53For me
00:37:53And I hope I may
00:37:54Never eat worse
00:37:55That's right, Aunt Kate
00:37:56Stand up to your principles
00:37:57But will you and Aunt Julia
00:37:59Sit down and help your supper?
00:38:01Ah, time enough
00:38:02Time enough
00:38:02Will you stop fussing around
00:38:04Like a couple of broody heads?
00:38:05Now, please don't concern yourselves about us
00:38:08Please just enjoy yourselves
00:38:10Well, how can we
00:38:12When you're buzzing around
00:38:13Like bees in a jam jar?
00:38:14Come on, come on
00:38:17Sit yourself down
00:38:19And proclaim yourself, please
00:38:21Thank you
00:38:22Sit down
00:38:24There we go
00:38:25Now, Aunt Julia
00:38:26You must sit down
00:38:27You'll be standing up far too long
00:38:29There we go
00:38:31Do you think I could have the wishbone, Mr. Conroy?
00:38:56Certainly
00:38:57Must be a big wish
00:39:00You're going to make
00:39:01It is
00:39:02I hope we were sharing the same wish
00:39:12Have any of you seen the new production
00:39:15At the Theatre Royal?
00:39:16I have
00:39:17Indeed, a number of us have
00:39:19What did you think of it?
00:39:21It was so beautiful
00:39:23I can't describe it
00:39:25My God
00:39:26When you hear Rudolfo's aria
00:39:29What's it called?
00:39:30Que jellida manina
00:39:32Oh, you hardly want to go on living
00:39:35What?
00:39:37It gave me goose pimples all down my arms
00:39:40What did?
00:39:42Your tiny hand is frozen
00:39:44Funny, I'm boiling
00:39:46Why don't you go over to the fireplace
00:39:49And warm them up?
00:39:50Freddie, you have it all wrong
00:39:52What's your if
00:39:53If her hands are cold?
00:39:55It's the name of a song
00:39:56What song?
00:39:58What are you talking about?
00:40:00Explain it to him, will you?
00:40:02Dad
00:40:03How many of you were there last night?
00:40:08I was there five nights ago
00:40:10For the opening
00:40:11Most of us were
00:40:12Well, you can count yourselves lucky
00:40:14I had the misfortune to go last night
00:40:16The douchey was indisposed
00:40:18And his understudy had to take over
00:40:19Need I say
00:40:20It was the chance of a lifetime
00:40:21The sort of a thing a man dreams about
00:40:24And what happened?
00:40:27How did he get on?
00:40:28It wasn't his voice
00:40:29Which was moderate
00:40:30A little bit thin and unsteady on top
00:40:32What then?
00:40:34His diction is about as artistic
00:40:36As an auctioneer at a cattle fair
00:40:37Rough is no word for it
00:40:39It was brutal
00:40:40And this to project
00:40:42The greatest purrs
00:40:43That ever dripped from a composer's pen
00:40:45With the sole exception of Verdi
00:40:47I heard that Verdi's morals were dubious
00:40:51Oh, very dubious indeed
00:40:54Ah, but what a genius
00:40:56And what respect the common Italian people had for him
00:40:59Sure, when he was dying
00:41:00They covered the street outside his window with straw
00:41:02So he wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of their carts
00:41:05Would that have happened in Ireland?
00:41:07Oh, I suppose not
00:41:09He would have been ruined by a woman
00:41:11Just like poor Barnell
00:41:13When I...
00:41:14Gentlemen, please
00:41:16No politics
00:41:17Sorry, Kate, sorry
00:41:18Keep these discussions for your committee meetings
00:41:20Mr. Darcy
00:41:22What did you think of the other roles?
00:41:25I must say
00:41:26Madam Devereaux has a lovely timbre
00:41:28Great homogeneity of tone
00:41:30How should I put it?
00:41:33She's an embrocation
00:41:35Well, after all, she's their leading contralto
00:41:39I hope none of you experts will laugh at me
00:41:41But do you know
00:41:43I found her style of production rather vulgar
00:41:46Have any of you been to the panto at the gaiety?
00:41:54Because now there's a negro chieftain
00:41:57Singing in the second part of it
00:41:59That's got one of the finest tenor voices I've ever heard
00:42:04You don't say
00:42:05I do
00:42:06I do
00:42:09Have you heard him?
00:42:12Because now I'd be curious to hear your opinion of him
00:42:16I think he has a grand voice
00:42:19Trust Teddy to find out all the good things
00:42:22Why can't he have a voice too?
00:42:26Is it because he's only a black...
00:42:28What?
00:42:29Why do you insist on calling me Teddy?
00:42:34My name is Freddy
00:42:37As you well know
00:42:39Theodore Alfred Mallins
00:42:42First things first, I say
00:42:43Theodore
00:42:45Teddy
00:42:46You know
00:42:51One of my girls gave me a pass for Mignon
00:42:54Of course it was very fine
00:42:56But seeing it again
00:42:58Made me think of poor Georgina Burns
00:43:00Burns
00:43:01Yes, I remember
00:43:03The young Scottish soprano
00:43:05She died very young, didn't she?
00:43:07When I was just a little girl
00:43:09Of pneumonia
00:43:10Caught from not looking after her throat
00:43:13After singing, they said
00:43:14Very tragic
00:43:15Very tragic
00:43:15Of course
00:43:17I can remember even further back than that
00:43:20To the great days of Bel Cantho
00:43:23When the old Italian opera companies
00:43:25Used to come to Dublin
00:43:26Teachens, Ilmer de Murska
00:43:28Campanini, Ravelli, Gullini, Aramburo
00:43:32The great Trebelli
00:43:34Those were the days
00:43:37Those were the days
00:43:39When something like singing
00:43:41Was to be heard in Dublin
00:43:42The top gallery of the old Theatre Royal
00:43:45Used to be packed
00:43:46Used to be packed night after night
00:43:48Mm-hmm, right
00:43:49And then
00:43:49I recall on one occasion
00:43:52A young Italian tenor singing five encores
00:43:55To lit me like a soldier for
00:43:57And introducing a high sea every time
00:44:03Trust you to remember the high seas always, Mr. Grace
00:44:07And then, of course, when some prima donna made a hit
00:44:11The gallery boys and their enthusiasm would unyoke the horses from the carriage
00:44:16And pull it themselves from the theatre to her hotel
00:44:20Oh, God, be with the days
00:44:23I wonder why they don't play the grand old operas now
00:44:26Dinora
00:44:27Lucretia Borgia
00:44:28Because they don't have the voices to sing them, that's why
00:44:32Oh, well, I presume there are as good singers today as there were then
00:44:35Where are they?
00:44:36In London
00:44:37Paris
00:44:37Milan
00:44:38I suppose Caruso, for example, is quite as good
00:44:42If not better than any of the men you mentioned
00:44:44Maybe so, but I may tell you I doubt it
00:44:46Oh, I'd give anything to hear Caruso sing
00:44:50For me there was only one tenor
00:44:53To please me, I mean
00:44:56Oh, I don't suppose any of you ever heard of him
00:44:59Who was he, Miss Markham?
00:45:03His name was Parkinson
00:45:07I heard him when he was in his prime
00:45:12I think then
00:45:13He had the purest tenor voice
00:45:16Ever put into a man's throat
00:45:18Strange, I never even heard of him
00:45:22Coventry, Darcy
00:45:24Hmm
00:45:24Nevertheless, Miss Morkham is right
00:45:27I certainly have heard of old Parkinson
00:45:30Although I never had the pleasure of listening to him
00:45:33A pure, sweet, mellow English tenor
00:45:42Excuse me, ma'am
00:45:55The pudding is ready to be served now
00:45:57The pudding is ready to be served now
00:46:27May I congratulate the chef
00:46:33Aunt Julia made it all by herself
00:46:36Miss Morkham, it is a work of art
00:46:39It looks delicious
00:46:41I was afraid it wasn't quite brown enough
00:46:44I hope I'm brown enough for you
00:46:48Because you see I'm all brown
00:46:50But could I have the celery, please?
00:46:54Oh, thank you
00:46:56The doctor said it was a capital thing for my blood
00:47:02Wait till after the pudding
00:47:04I need something to get to the taste
00:47:08Did Freddy tell you he's off to Mount Melory in a week or so?
00:47:11Oh
00:47:13For an atreat
00:47:15I hear the air down there is very bracing
00:47:17The monks never even ask for a penny piece from their guests
00:47:19They're very hospitable, the monks
00:47:21You'll be getting plenty of salary down at Mount Melory
00:47:30You mean to tell me a chap can go down there and put up there as if at a hotel and live on the fat of the land and then come away without paying a farthing?
00:47:40Most people give some donation to the monastery when they leave
00:47:43I wish we had an institution like that in our church
00:47:46The monks never utter words, you know
00:47:48And they get up at two in the morning
00:47:49What's more they sleep in their coffins
00:47:51Why?
00:47:52Why?
00:47:53Because it's the rule of the order
00:47:56Yes, but why?
00:47:57Because it's the rule, that's all
00:48:00But there has to be some sort of logic behind it
00:48:02You know the doctrine that in the eyes of the church we can do penance for others
00:48:12This now is what Father O'Rourke explained to me
00:48:17Thereby gaining indulgences, you see
00:48:23You see, remission of sins
00:48:26And therefore the monks are trying to compensate for all the sins committed by all the sinners in the outside
00:48:46External world
00:48:49You mean, they're trying to get us all off the hook?
00:48:55Well, on the last day, you see
00:49:01Day of judgment
00:49:03Including agnostics, atheists, heathens
00:49:06As well as, as you so eloquently put it, those of us of the other persuasion
00:49:12I think so
00:49:17Well, I'm all in favour of the idea of fat-headed not to be like getting free insurance
00:49:25But, wouldn't a comfortable spring bed do them as well as a coffin?
00:49:31They are very good men, the monks
00:49:34Very pious
00:49:36The coffin is to remind them of their last end
00:49:42Yes, well, but
00:49:45I can see
00:49:46It's very well
00:49:47It's very well taken
00:49:48Thank you
00:49:49Gabriel
00:49:50The floor
00:49:51The floor
00:49:52The floor
00:49:53The floor
00:49:54The floor
00:49:55The floor
00:49:56The floor
00:49:57The floor
00:49:58The floor
00:49:59The floor
00:50:16Ladies and gentlemen
00:50:17it is not the first time that we have gathered round this hospitable board as the recipients
00:50:25or perhaps i had better say the victims of the hospitality of a certain good ladies
00:50:34indeed no tradition does our country more honor than its overwhelming hospitality
00:50:43some might consider it a failing and if so it is a princely one
00:50:50ladies and gentlemen we are living in a skeptical and if i may use the phrase a thought
00:50:59tormented world where the values of the past are often at a discount but
00:51:04it gives me joy that under this one roof the spirit of good old-fashioned warm-hearted
00:51:12courteous irish hospitality is still alive among us long may it continue
00:51:20and yet
00:51:24in gathering such as this sadder thoughts will occur to our minds
00:51:34thoughts of the past of youth of changes
00:51:39of absent friends that we miss here tonight
00:51:43but our work is among the living
00:51:49we must not brood or stoop to gloomy moralizing
00:51:53we have all of us living duties and living affections which claim and rightly our strenuous endeavors
00:52:02now here we are met
00:52:06momentarily away from the bustle of our everyday routines
00:52:11in a spirit of good fellowship in the true spirit of camaraderie
00:52:18and as the guests of
00:52:20what shall i call them
00:52:24the three graces
00:52:27of the dublin musical world
00:52:29ladies and gentlemen i shall not attempt to play the part that paris played in ancient times
00:52:46to choose between them
00:52:49the task would be an invidious one and beyond my poor powers
00:52:53for when i view them in turn whether it be
00:52:57our chief hostess herself whose good heart
00:53:00whose too good heart
00:53:03has become a byword with all who know her
00:53:06or her sister
00:53:09who seems to be gifted with perennial youth
00:53:13and whose singing must have been a surprise and a revelation to us all tonight
00:53:18or last but not least
00:53:21when i consider our youngest hostess
00:53:25talented cheerful hard-working and the best of nieces
00:53:30well i confess i do not know to which of them i should award the prize
00:53:36so let us toast them all three together
00:53:41let us drink to their health wealth long life happiness and prosperity
00:53:49and may they long continue to hold the proud and self-won position they hold in their profession
00:53:56and the position of honor and affection
00:54:00which they hold in our hearts
00:54:03for they are jolly fine fellows
00:54:18for they are jolly fine fellows
00:54:22for they are jolly fine fellows
00:54:27which nobody can deny
00:54:31unless he tells a lie
00:54:34unless he tells a lie
00:54:38for they are jolly fine fellows
00:54:42for they are jolly fine fellows
00:54:46For the day of jolly fine fellows
00:54:52Which nobody can deny
00:55:16Your staff
00:55:18Oh look, it stopped snowing
00:55:24Our beds are going to be icy tonight
00:55:27They weren't getting married just to keep warm
00:55:33Lovely, sweet, enjoy myself
00:55:35Thank you so much
00:55:37Thank you, my dear
00:55:39Succulent beard, as usual
00:55:41Aunt Julia, thank you for a lovely evening
00:55:45My grandmother's old gardener said in November it was going to be a hard winter
00:55:50How did he know?
00:55:52The almanac
00:55:54And he said the berries were very red on the holly
00:55:57And that there were a lot of them
00:55:59That means a hard winter
00:56:01The birds also
00:56:03I heard a lot of field fairs and redwings pass through early
00:56:07Are you an ornithologist as well?
00:56:09An amateur
00:56:11I suppose being a singer makes me susceptible to other creatures that sing
00:56:16And birds are the most beautiful singers of all
00:56:19Just think of the willow warbler
00:56:21Or the wren
00:56:23And in Italy I heard wonderful birds
00:56:27The nightingale, of course
00:56:30Is it like in the ode of Mr. Keats?
00:56:35Not at all
00:56:37Good night
00:56:38Good night
00:56:39Good night
00:56:40Good night
00:56:41Good night
00:56:42Good night
00:56:43Good night
00:56:44Good night
00:56:45Oh, incidentally, Gabriel
00:56:46I've been meaning to ask you all evening long
00:56:48And I keep forgetting this
00:56:49Have you finished marking the exams yet?
00:56:51Almost
00:56:52Ah, well, try and get them to me as quickly as you possibly can
00:56:55So that I can post the results at first of term
00:56:58First thing Monday morning
00:56:59Ah, thank you, my boy, thank you
00:57:01Well, once again, good night all
00:57:03Good night to you, Gabriel
00:57:04We're really grateful for your hospitality this market
00:57:07It really was a treat
00:57:09Even better than last year, wasn't it, Freddy?
00:57:11Was I here last year?
00:57:13It was our pleasure
00:57:15When do you go back to Scotland again?
00:57:17Oh, on Monday
00:57:18I never travel on the Lord's Day if I can help it
00:57:20And when do we have the pleasure of seeing you back in Ireland?
00:57:23Well, perhaps when my son-in-law takes the family fishing
00:57:26During August, the midges in the Highlands are desperate
00:57:30Yes, Freddy, will you bring a chair?
00:57:32That'll be something for Freddy to look forward to, Mrs. Mallon
00:57:35Round the back there, Freddy
00:57:36Here we are
00:57:38Excuse me, ladies
00:57:40Good night
00:57:41Good night
00:57:42Good night
00:57:43Good night
00:57:44Ah, sure, God, no
00:57:45I'm sure he wasn't so bad this year
00:57:47Oh, no
00:57:49You feel like a post stuck in the ground, Mr. Conroy
00:57:54Fine, strong man
00:57:59Fine
00:58:00Oh, I wish the same could be said of my Freddy
00:58:04Freddy, will you go and get a cab? I look after your mother
00:58:07I'm on my way
00:58:08You can't have people
00:58:09And the pair of you are boys
00:58:11Who would think there'd be such a difference?
00:58:14Will you do me a favour, Mr. Conroy?
00:58:20Of course
00:58:21Will you keep an eye on him while I'm away?
00:58:23I will, of course, Mrs. Mallon
00:58:25He'll have every cab in Dublin out
00:58:27I think Freddy will never get married now
00:58:35Time to go, Mr. Brown
00:58:39Mr. Brown
00:58:40Wake up
00:58:41It's time to go
00:58:43There it's time, on
00:59:11Ask him
00:59:12I've got one. I've got a cab.
00:59:15A good man, Freddy. You can take Mr. Brown on your way home, can't you?
00:59:18I've just asked my mother, is that all right?
00:59:21Brown has done the same for me under similar circumstances.
00:59:26My way of our way home. My leg is hurting me.
00:59:30So, mother, I owe it to.
00:59:32Oh, I wish you could get away from that man.
00:59:35Put Brown in first.
00:59:41I don't want to get kicked when you are sorting him out.
00:59:44The 27 Munster Road, Jonathan's barn.
00:59:48Then head straight on to Rathmines.
00:59:51Excuse me, sir.
00:59:52What?
00:59:53How would I find that place?
00:59:54You don't know how to get to Rathmines?
00:59:57No, sir, nor the other place.
00:59:59You're not a doubler man, are you, driver?
01:00:01Somewhere from the west of Ireland.
01:00:03You're a grand man, sir, the Aron Island.
01:00:05How well do you know Dublin?
01:00:07Or Bolly Aaglia, as you call it out there.
01:00:10Oh, my, my back.
01:00:12Ah, badly, sir.
01:00:13As a matter of fact, I'm not really a cab driver.
01:00:16Just had from the sister's husband to make a few extra bob over the Christmas.
01:00:20In fact, sir, I was lost when your honour found me.
01:00:26How are you, mother? Are you comfortable?
01:00:28I am not.
01:00:30Could you wedge a pillow under my knee?
01:00:33Would I get a pillow inside?
01:00:34It's not necessary.
01:00:35There's plenty pillows in here.
01:00:36I'll put one on the floor under my foot.
01:00:38If the driver doesn't mind.
01:00:40I'm sure they'll be used for other purposes.
01:00:44Going twice around the park.
01:00:46You watch your tongue, Brown, in the presence of my mother.
01:00:49How's that?
01:00:50Oh, it'll do.
01:00:53But do you know where you are now?
01:00:54Just about, sir.
01:00:56Do you know how to get to Trinity College?
01:00:58Trinity College.
01:00:59Ah, I believe I do, sir.
01:01:02Right drive, bang, up against its gates.
01:01:06And I'll tell you where to go from there.
01:01:09Right, sir.
01:01:09Ride like a bird to Trinity College.
01:01:11Right, sir.
01:01:12Come on.
01:01:13You forgot your ping of me, Jiggs, Mr. Conneroy.
01:01:27My galoshes, Lily.
01:01:29My galoshes.
01:01:30Galoshes.
01:01:32Where on earth is his wife mine, hmm?
01:01:35I don't know, sir.
01:01:36Greta?
01:01:38Greta?
01:01:39If you'll be the last of our crib
01:01:55As I'm taking you mean to be
01:02:03Tell me the first token
01:02:11That passed between you and me
01:02:21Oh, don't you remember
01:02:32That night on yondling hill
01:02:41When we both met together
01:02:50Which I'm sorry now to tell
01:03:00Oh, the rain falls on my heavy locks
01:03:14And the dew wets my skin
01:03:22My babe lies cold
01:03:28My babe lies cold
01:03:31Within my arms
01:03:36But none will let me in
01:03:46But none will let me in
01:04:16Oh, Mr. Darcy
01:04:23We were an enraptuous listening to you
01:04:25And he said he was a frog in his throat
01:04:27And couldn't sing
01:04:28Oh, Mr. Darcy
01:04:29What a fin
01:04:30Don't you annoy him, Mary Jane
01:04:32I won't have Mr. Darcy annoyed
01:04:34Would you not to take time on a trifle horse?
01:04:36Not in the slightest
01:04:37Not even in the highest registers
01:04:38It was a great privilege to hear you
01:04:40No matter how brief
01:04:41One must be very careful in this weather, you see
01:04:43It affects the Vulcan cause
01:04:44Oh, indeed
01:04:45Remember what Mary Jane was saying
01:04:46About poor Georgina Burns
01:04:48Oh, yes
01:04:49Oh, yes
01:04:58No matter who
01:05:39They say you never pass O'Connell Bridge without seeing a white horse.
01:05:49I say a white man this time.
01:06:03Did I ever tell you about Johnny and King Billy's statue?
01:06:07Who's Johnny?
01:06:11Well, the late lamented Patrick Morkan, my grandfather, was, as you know, a glue boiler.
01:06:19Geraint said he had a starchman.
01:06:22Well, starch or glue.
01:06:25Anyway, he had a horse called Johnny, and Johnny used to work in the mill, walking round and round it in order to drive the mill.
01:06:35And one fine day, the old gentleman decided that he'd like to drive out with the quality to a military review in the park.
01:06:42So he dressed himself out in his best, his best top hat, his best collar, and off he went.
01:06:49And everything went along beautifully until they came to King Billy's statue.
01:06:55And whether Johnny fell in love with the horse King Billy sits on, or whether he thought he was back again in the mill,
01:07:06he started to walk round and round the statue.
01:07:11And the old gentleman, he was highly indignant.
01:07:14He couldn't stop him.
01:07:14He said, Johnny, Johnny.
01:07:16What's the matter with the animal?
01:07:18Can't understand the beast.
01:07:20Most extraordinary conduct.
01:07:25And he had to get out and walk Johnny home.
01:07:46Good evening.
01:08:02What room number?
01:08:03Fourteen, please.
01:08:04Fourteen.
01:08:11This way.
01:08:16You look tired.
01:08:38I am a little.
01:08:39You don't feel the old weight?
01:08:41I'm not tired, that's all.
01:08:42Oh, Freddie Melonson.
01:08:46Poor Freddie Melonson.
01:08:48What about him?
01:08:49Oh, poor fella.
01:08:51If I had a mother like that, I suppose I would have taken to the drink, too.
01:08:55Oh, no.
01:08:57You're far too responsible, Gabriel.
01:09:06Tell me what you're thinking.
01:09:08Tell me I think I know what the matter is.
01:09:11Do I know?
01:09:13Oh.
01:09:15I'm thinking about that song, The Last of Ocrum.
01:09:18What about that song?
01:09:20Why should that make you cry?
01:09:23I'm thinking about a person long ago who used to sing that song.
01:09:28Who was that person long ago?
01:09:31It was a person I used to know in Galway when I was living with my grandmother.
01:09:36Someone you were in love with?
01:09:37There was a young boy I used to know named Michael Fury.
01:09:47He used to sing that song, The Last of Ocrum.
01:09:50He was very delicate.
01:09:51He was very delicate.
01:09:53I can see him so plainly.
01:09:59such eyes as he had, big, dark eyes, and an expression in them.
01:10:09An expression.
01:10:10Oh, so you are in love with him.
01:10:11I used to go out walking with him when I was in Galway.
01:10:12Perhaps that was why you wanted to go to Galway with that Ivers woman.
01:10:13What for?
01:10:14Well, how do I know?
01:10:15Well, how do I know?
01:10:16To see him, perhaps?
01:10:17He's dead.
01:10:18He died when he was only 17.
01:10:21Isn't it a terrible thing to die so young as that?
01:10:24What was he?
01:10:25He died when he was only 17.
01:10:27Isn't it a terrible thing to die so young as that?
01:10:42What was he?
01:10:43He was in the gas works.
01:10:46I suppose you were in love with this Mike of Fury, Greta.
01:11:02I was great with him at the time.
01:11:07What was it he died of so young?
01:11:12Consumption, was it?
01:11:15I think he died for me.
01:11:20It was in the winter.
01:11:23About the beginning of the winter.
01:11:26I was leaving my grandmother's house to come up to the convent in Dublin.
01:11:32And he was ill at the time when his lodgings in Galway wouldn't be let out.
01:11:39And his people in Uterard were written to.
01:11:44He was in decline, they said, or something like that.
01:11:48I never knew rightly.
01:11:53Poor fellow.
01:11:55He was very fond of me.
01:11:58And he was such a gentle boy.
01:12:03We used to go out walking together, you know, Gabriel, the way they do in the country.
01:12:10He was going to study singing only for his health.
01:12:15He had a very good voice.
01:12:19Poor Michael Fury.
01:12:21Well, and then?
01:12:31Then, when it came time for me to leave Galway and go up to the convent, he was much worse.
01:12:38And I wouldn't be let to see him.
01:12:43So I wrote him a letter saying I was going up to Dublin, would be back in the summer, and hoping he'd be better by then.
01:12:55Then the night before I left, I was in my grandmother's house in Nunn's Island packing up.
01:13:02I heard gravel thrown up against the window.
01:13:07The window was so wet I couldn't see out.
01:13:10So I ran downstairs as I was and slipped out the back into the garden.
01:13:16And there was the poor fellow at the end of the garden.
01:13:20And shivering.
01:13:29Did you not tell him to go back?
01:13:32I implored of him to go home at once.
01:13:35And told him he'd get his death in the rain.
01:13:40But he said he did not want to live.
01:13:44I can see his eyes as well, as well.
01:13:50Did he go home?
01:13:54Yes.
01:13:56He went home.
01:13:59And after I was only a week in the convent, he died.
01:14:05He was buried in Old Gerard, where his people came from.
01:14:12Oh, the day I heard that, that he was dead.
01:14:20Oh, the day, that he was dead.
01:14:21Oh.
01:14:26Come.
01:14:28Oh, when he died.
01:14:33Oh, when he died.
01:14:43Oh, oh, oh.
01:15:13How poor a part I've played in your life.
01:15:20It's almost as though I'm not your husband,
01:15:24that we've never lived together as man and wife.
01:15:28What were you like then?
01:15:43To me your face is still beautiful,
01:15:56but it's no longer the one for which Michael Fury braved death.
01:16:03Why am I feeling this riot of emotion?
01:16:07What stirred it up?
01:16:10A ride in the cab, her not responding when I kissed her hand.
01:16:16My aunt's party, my own foolish speech.
01:16:21Wine, dancing, music.
01:16:26Poor Aunt Julia.
01:16:29That haggard look on her face when she was singing a raid for the bridal.
01:16:35Soon she'll be a shade, too, with the shade of Patrick Morkin and his horse.
01:16:50Soon, perhaps, I'll be sitting in that same drawing room dressed in black.
01:16:56The blinds will be drawn down and I'll be casting about in my mind for words of consolation.
01:17:02And will find only lame and useless ones.
01:17:07Yes, yes, that will happen very soon.
01:17:12Yes, the newspapers are right.
01:17:23Snow is general all over Ireland.
01:17:27Falling on every part of the dark central plain.
01:17:31From the treeless hills.
01:17:34Softly upon the bog of Alan.
01:17:37And farther westward, softly falling.
01:17:41Into the dark, mutinous Shannon waves.
01:17:46One by one we're all becoming shades.
01:17:50Better to pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.
01:18:01How long you locked away in your heart the image of your lover's eyes when he told you that he did not wish to live.
01:18:11I've never felt that way myself towards any woman.
01:18:15But I know that such a feeling must be love.
01:18:20Think of all those who ever were.
01:18:25Back to the start of time.
01:18:28And me, transient as they, flickering out as well into their grey world.
01:18:35Like everything around me, this solid world itself, which they reared and lived in, is dwindling and dissolving.
01:18:48Snow is falling.
01:18:52Falling in that lonely churchyard where Michael Fury lies buried.
01:18:58Falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling.
01:19:03Like the descent of their last end.
01:19:07Upon all the living and the dead.
01:19:33Falling faintly through the same way.
01:19:36We are, when we were.
01:19:37We are, when you put them on the wall.
01:19:39We are in a wall and the dead.
01:19:41And we are, when you were.
01:19:42I am, when you were.
01:19:43You could just put them in there.
01:19:45That's insane and dry.
01:19:46And you did not think of it.
01:19:48You could just say that, unless you were..
01:19:50We are in a wholesale house.
01:19:51We were in a mobile home when you were.
01:19:53We are home.
01:19:54We are in a genuine way.
01:19:56We are in a complex new home.
01:19:57We are in a woman where you are.
01:19:58You could almost to the year.
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