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It is the middle of night and the Carney and Corcoran boys are up drinking and chatting. They are all teenagers but they are used to drinking, to varying degrees. Diarmaid, Shane, and Declan have come to the Carney’s farm to help with the harvest and they are full of stories about life in Derry. To begin with, the Carney boys are fascinated by their tales, but soon Michael and Shane begin to butt heads. Shane is very drunk and boastful about his involvement with the IRA, egged on by Diarmaid.
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START: DIARMAID. We got the first bus from Waterside and it’s coming down stair rods all the way. 6 a.m. and the coach is sardines, we’re stood up all the way, riding into Belfast on the way to the funeral. The driver’s got the radio on full-blast and your man there’s sayin’ eighty, ninety thousand folk are lining the street.
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END: MICHAEL. How do you know what uncle Seamus did? You were six years old when he disappeared. Sure, I was five. Declan there was in his f#&kin’ nappy. None of us know what uncle Seamus did.
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Jez Butterworth, The Ferryman, NHB Modern Plays, 2017, pp. 100-110.
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