She too goes off to London (though with her father’s blessing) to become a nurse and marries a man who is more or less tolerated by his father-in-law. She is the one who initially runs the household after their mother’s death. As the title explains, Moran seems to be better with women but, even then, he does it as much by his stern ways, of which his daughters are frightened, though they do remain loyal and devoted to him. The youngest brother also clashes with his father and when threatened with corporal punishment leaves the family home and he too goes off to London. He clearly clashed with his father and refuses to come back, despite persuasion from his brother and sisters, though he does meet his father at his sister’s wedding in Dublin. Luke, the eldest, has left the family home in Ireland and now lives in London. In one particular incident, he and his men killed an English colonel and several of their men, when the colonel was arriving at a local station. Michael Moran was active in the Irish Republican Army during the 1920s/1930s and killed quite a few English soldiers. Home » Ireland » John McGahern » Amongst Women John McGahern: Amongst Women
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