PERSONS
Reading edition
CHRISTOPHER MAHON. OLD MAHON, his father, a squatter. MICHAEL JAMES FLAHERTY (called MICHAEL JAMES), a publican. MARGARET FLAHERTY (called PEGEEN MIKE), his daughter. SHAWN KEOUGH, her cousin, a young farmer. WIDOW QUIN, a woman of about thirty. PHILLY CULLEN and JIMMY FARRELL, small farmers. SARA TANSEY, SUSAN BRADY, and HONOR BLAKE, village girls. A BELLMAN. SOME PEASANTS.
The action takes place near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo. The first Act passes on an evening of autumn, the other two Acts on the following day.