AFTER THE RISING. EPISODE FIVE: GOING UNDER
The story so far: Jo Devereux is back in Mucknamore, the Irish seaside village where she grew up, for her mother's funeral. In her will, her mother’s has bequeathed a pile of family papers and asked her to write about her family's part in the Irish liberation struggle in 1922. It might suit Jp to stay on and take refuge from the raddled life she's been living in San Francisco since her friend Richard died. But how can she, now that the family pub and shop is to be sold? And when Rory O’Donovan, the only man she ever really loved, still lives there with his wife and children and seems to think they can be friends?
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Now Read On: After Rory’s gone I go to the sitting room and slide the pictures of my eighteen-year-old self out of their envelope, to look again at this girl with her unlined face and body, to look and look until I can’t see her image any more, until it blurs and clears and mists again. At some point I fall asleep staring into her wildly glittering eyes.
I wake with