Firefly Summer

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Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer: 2. The Plans

Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer

2. The Plans

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer, 2. The Plans

Can Patrick win support for plans for the Irish village of Mountfern? Stars David Soul.

Can American Patrick O'Neil win support for his plans for the Irish village of Mountfern? Stars David Soul and Anna Healy.

Ambitious Irish-American, Patrick O'Neill, has arrived in Mountfern - the Irish village that his impoverished grandfather emigrated from many years before. 

He's bought the ruins of Fernscourt - the big house  -and plans to rebuild it as a hotel.

But how do the locals feel?

Starring David Soul.

Maeve Binchy's novel dramatised by Jane Cassidy

Patrick O'Neill ...... David Soul
Kate Ryan    ......    Anna Healy
John Ryan    ......    Lorcan Cranitch
Rachel    ......    Susan Slot
Fergus    ......    Dan Gordon
Kerry O'Neill    ......    Luke Griffin
Grace O'Neill    ......    Melissa Smith
Porter    ......    John Keegan
Father Minchan    ......    John Hewitt
Rev Williams    ......    Trevor Moore
Sheila Whelan    ......    Marie Jones
Jack Coyne    ......    Ray McBride
Mr Murphy    ......    Maurice Kehoe
Brian Doyle    ......    Conleth Hill

With:

Audrey Dempsey
Brendan Lennon
Sean McKenna
Ken Farmer

Music composed by Jane Cassidy.

Music performed by Rod McVey (piano) and Kate O'Brien (violin)

Director:  Pam Brighton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1996.

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An ambitious Irish-American moves his family to the rural Irish town of Mountfern.

An ambitious Irish-American moves his family to the rural Irish town of Mountfern. Stars David Soul.

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