CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN
Scene: Interior of a cottage close to Killala, in 1798. bridget is standing at a table undoing a parcel, peter is sitting at one side of the fire, patrick at the other.
peter. What is that sound I hear?
patrick. I don’t hear anything. [He listens.] I hear it now. It’s like cheering. [He goes to the window and looks out.] I wonder what they are cheering about. I don’t see anybody.
peter. It might be a hurling.
patrick. There's no hurling to-day. It must be down in the town the cheering is.
bridget. I suppose the boys must be having some sport of their own. Come over here, Peter, and look at Michael’s wedding-clothes.
peter [shifts his chair to table]. Those are grand clothes, indeed.
bridget. You hadn’t clothes like that when you married me, and no coat to put on of a Sunday more than any other day.
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