Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother’s small old hometown of Kilronan, County Galway, Ireland after he discovers an old photograph of her, she who now cannot speak due to a stroke, with a man he has never seen. He suspects this man may be his biological father. On the urging of his sister, Kieran takes his teen-aged nephew Jack on the trip. In Kilronan, Mrs. Kearney, the innkeeper’s mother and a bit of a gypsy woman who has lived in the area for the better part of her life, tells Kieran and Jack about life in the town in 1939 when a high-spirited Fiona Flynn, Kieran’s mother, started seeing a peat farmer named Kieran O’Day. Kieran O’Day grew up a “poorhouse bastard”, and as such he was always shy and considered an outsider amongst the townsfolk. Because of his standing in the community and the differences in their ages (she being only seventeen, he in his …
Release Date: 7 May 1999Runtime:
Stars:
- Aiden Condron
- Alexandra Spunt
- Colm Meaney
- Fiona Glascott
- Françoise Graton
- Jacob Tierney
- James Caan
- Joel Gordon
- Moira Deady
- Pat Leavy
- Pauline Hutton
- Peadar Lamb
- Susan Almgren
- Terrence Scammell
- Victoria Sanchez
Director: Paul Quinn
