The hopes of a mother. The dreams of a father. The fate of a child.
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
emigration
irish-american
hunger
socially deprived family
rain
famine
alcoholism
poverty
based on memoir or autobiography
ireland
brooklyn, new york city
alcoholic father
dead children
irish catholic
1930s
life in the slums
drunkard
children in need
limerick
rainy setting