last son; that won't keep me here. I'm the last
of my name, but that won't keep me here. I leave you your lands, your
twenty years' purchase. Murtagh Cosgar, Murtagh Cosgar! isn't that a
great name, Martin Douras--a name that's well planted, a name for
generations? Isn't he a lucky man that has a name for generations?
_(He goes out)_

MURTAGH COSGAR
He can't go. How could he go and he the last of the name. Close the
door, I say.

MARTIN DOURAS
He'll go to Ellen, surely. We'll lose both of them. Murtagh Cosgar,
God comfort you and me.

MURTAGH COSGAR
Ellen; who's Ellen? Ay, that daughter of yours. Close the door, I say.

_He sits down at fireplace. Martin Douras closes door and goes to
him_.

CURTAIN

ACT II

_Interior of Martin Douras'. The entrance is at back left. There
is a dresser against wall back; a table down from dresser; room
doors right and left. The fireplace is below the room door right;
there are stools and chairs about it. There is a little bookcase
left of the dresser, and a mirror beside it. There are patriotic and
religious pictures on the wall. There are cups and saucers on table,
and a teapot beside fire. It is afternoon still. Ellen Douras is
near the fire reading. Cornelius comes in slowly_.

CORNELIUS
I left the men down the road a bit. We ought to take great pride out
of this day, Ellen. Father did more than any of them to bring it
about.

ELLEN
He suffered more than any of them. And it's little we'll get out of
the day.

CORNELIUS
It's a great thing to have prophesied it, even. We'll be here to see
a great change.

ELLEN
There will be no change to make things better!

CORNELIUS
Will you be taking that school, Ellen?

ELLEN
I'll wait a while.

_Sally coming in; she is hurried_.

SALLY
_(breathlessly)_ Oh, God save you, Cornelius. Tell me, is my
father gone? I dread going back and he there! It was all over that
baste of a sow that has kept me slaving all through the spring till
I don't know whether greens or potatoes is the fittest for her!

CORNELIUS
He didn't go, Sally. I went down a bit of the road myself with the men.

SALLY
Oh, God help me! And I'll have to be going back to boil meal
for her now. How are you, Ellen. _(She goes to Ellen)_

ELLEN
Sit down for a while, Sally; it's a long time since I was speaking
to you.

_Sally sits down beside Ellen_.

CORNELIUS
I'll leave this paper where they won't be looking for pipe-lig