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The Byrnes Are A Fishing Family, Living A Life Of Grinding Poverty On The Connemara Coast. Dympna, The Only Girl, Adores Her Father Micheál. She Does Her Best To Help Her English Mother And The Family Rub Along By Working Hard And Expecting Little.But Beneath The Smooth-seeming Surface There Are Hidden Secrets. Beatrice Idolises Her Clever Eldest Son, But Her Attitude To Her Husband And To Dympna Is Puzzling. Yet When The Family Desperately Needs Money It Is Dympna Who Crosses The Water To Liverpool, To Send Money Back For Them.
The Byrnes Are A Fishing Family, Living A Life Of Grinding Poverty On The Connemara Coast. Dympna, The Only Girl, Adores Her Father Micheál. She Does Her Best To Help Her English Mother And The Family Rub Along By Working Hard And Expecting Little.But Beneath The Smooth-seeming Surface There Are Hidden Secrets. Beatrice Idolises Her Clever Eldest Son, But Her Attitude To Her Husband And To Dympna Is Puzzling. Yet When The Family Desperately Needs Money It Is Dympna Who Crosses The Water To Liverpool, To Send Money Back For Them.