The Gaol Gate (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Isabella Augusta Persse
- First Published: 1909
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: 1906
- Setting: Galway, Ireland
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Justice, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Prisoners, Prisons, Crime or criminals, Twentieth century, Betrayal, Villages, Capital punishment, Loyalty, Gossip, Ireland or Irish people, Honor
- Locales: Galway, Ireland
Characters Discussed
Mary Cahel, one of two characters who provide most of the dialogue and dramatic action. She is the mother of Denis Cahel, who is being held in Galway Jail. She is a strong- minded woman with a deep sense of family pride. Like many of the common people of the time, she cannot read. She goes to Galway bearing a letter that she has not opened, in order to find out from the authorities at the jail what it says about her son, who was arrested for firing a gun. She is concerned about his possible punishment and about his good name, and therefore that of the...
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