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A family tragedy and a trip back to Ireland from New York for Eilis Lacey. Concluded by Niamh Cusack.

A family tragedy and a trip back to Ireland from New York for Eilis Lacey.

Colm Toibin's novel opened in the small town of Enniscorthy in the south east of Ireland in the early 1950s.

Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who moved to America in search of a better life. Her new adventure is curtailed by a family tragedy in Ireland.

Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes abridged by Sally Marmion.

Concluded by Niamh Cusack.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2009.

1 hour, 10 minutes

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Mon 27 May 202402:30
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