Sive - John B Keane, Quotes

"Out working with a farmer you should be,

my girl, instead of getting your head filled with notions" - Mena Glavin

"I could never live with that old man.

Fancy the thought of waking in the light of day and looking at him with the small head on him" - Sive

"I mean that pauperised

wretch you call a wife" - Nanna Glavin

"Never...if the sun, moon and stars rained out

of the heavens and split the ground under my feet... never" - Mike Glavin

"Have many years have

he spent searching the county for a women" - Matchmaker

"He will have anything,

I tell you, if he will get Sive" - Matchmaker

"When we passed the cumar near Donals,

he made a drive at me! He nearly tore the coat off me" - Sive

"terrible

auction" - Liam Scuab

"That rotting old man

with the gloating eyes and trembling hands" - Liam Scuab

"You... You killed her. That the hand of Jesus

may strike you dead where you stand " - Liam Scuab

"You are the bladder of a pig,

the snout of a sow, you are the leavings of a hound, the sting of a wasp" - Nanna Glavin