![]() ![]() In the early 1920s, Michael Moran is an outspoken Republican advocating for a free and independent Ireland. Though flashbacks, each female member of the Moran family reflects on Michael's life and the journey that has brought him to this crossroads. ![]() On Monaghan Day, Michael's old friend McQuaid would visit, and the two would trade stories about their time together in the war. ![]() In an attempt to boost Michael's flagging spirit and mounting health woes, the daughters reconstruct a family event from their youth, called Monaghan Day. Though they have lives of their own away from the family farm, the daughters feel like their true place is with their father. His daughters care for him on the rural County Leitrim farmstead where they grew up. The book begins with Michael as an old man in failing health. They exist in an uncomfortable gray area between adoring Michael and being terrified of him as he attempts to make the transition from guerilla fighter to head of a family. Set in the years following Ireland's War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, it is a family story centering on Michael Moran, a mercurial, disillusioned veteran of the Irish Republican Army, who terrorizes his wife and children. Amongst Women is a novel by preeminent Irish author John McGahern, first published by Faber and Faber in 1990. ![]()
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