And Drogheda? No battlefield, no seat of power. THE ROAD TO DROGHEDA brought back no memories of his youth, thought Father Ralph de Bricassart, eyes half shut against the glare as his new Daimler bounced along in the rutted wheel tracks that marched through the long silver grass. To page 101.Ĭolleen McCullough's THE THORN BIRDS ls published in Australia by Harper & Row (Aust) Pty. Very little is said to him by Paddy or Fiona but young Meggie is overjoyed and seems to grow older and more womanlike in her welcome.
However in 1917, when he is 17, Frank makes his escape for a few days, when he leaves home to join the Anny, but is brought back by the police. But for the sake of his mother and also for the He senses that Fee is always tired and unobtrusively tries to helpįrank would like to leave home, as there is not much love for his father in him. Perhaps because Meggie is too young to help, Fee is as distant to her as she is to her sons, with the exception of the eldest, Frank, the only one not stamped with Paddy's red hair. Household chores and is never heard to complain. He had left Ireland hurriedly, many years before, and his only relative is an older sister, Mary Carson, widowed many years and living on a rich sheep property, Drogheda, 600 miles northwest of Sydney,įiona, lovingly known as Fee, to her family, seems as though she was born to something much better than the hard life they lead, But she stoically keeps at her Paddy, originally from Galway, Ireland, runs a small farm and does shearing for other graziers in the district. SETTING THE SCENE: The Cleary Family, Paddy and Fiona and their seven children, Frank, Bob, Jack, Hugh, Stuart, Meggie and Hal, live outside Wahine, New Zealand, in the early 1900s. This novel - its unknown Australian author is now internationally famous.
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