Against the Wind (TV Mini Series)

A House on the Hill (1978)

Mary Larkin: Mary Mulvane, Mary Garrett

Quotes 

• Mary Mulvane : [to Dinny]  Ireland's not a poor old woman. She's my country, she's yours, and I'm going back.

• Mary Mulvane : You've done so much...!

  Jonathan Garrett : For you. I did it for you. Marry me, Mary.

  Mary Mulvane : I can't!

  Jonathan Garrett : Why?

  Mary Mulvane : I can't...! I'm tied to Ireland. By blood. Too many people back there. The living and the buried. I can't cut that tie, Jonathan. Me own heart would bleed to death inside me.

  [tearfully:] 

  Mary Mulvane : You've done so much... You deserve so much! Not a walking dead woman!

  Jonathan Garrett : I love you, Mary. I did this.

  Mary Mulvane : [re the picked flowers]  They need water, poor things. Taken from the roots, they need water.

• Jonathan Garrett : [re overcast Australian landscape]  It's got a, kind of... beauty, Mary.

  Mary Mulvane : A grey kind. It's not Ireland. It's not home!

• Dinny O'Byrne : They had a break at Castle Hill, and they hanged a man. That means next time they'll fight harder!

  Mary Mulvane : Dinny...!

  Dinny O'Byrne : Oh, it will come. Guns, swords, whips, ropes and chains, that's what they use. When we've got hands! We can get the guns, swords, whips, ropes and chains. Then we'll see who's Master! Mick that they hanged, he was just a child.

  [with sorrow in his voice:] 

  Dinny O'Byrne : A big dumb horse of a man. And they put the spurs and they put the spurs again and then he bucked! When they hanged him, they hanged a child. I knew him.

  Mary Mulvane : Dinny, don't go chasing after guns and swords... Or they'll hang you! I don't want that!

• Mary Mulvane : [after they witnessed the bolter led away to a fake trial prior to surely be hanged]  And that's how it will always be.

  Jonathan Garrett : And is it different in Ireland?

• Mary Mulvane : I want to kill her! I know that I shouldn't, but the hate is like a cold stone inside of me!

  Father Dixon : Do you feel that this woman's harmed you?

  Mary Mulvane : [sobs]  She won't let me get married to Jonathan!