McQuaid and Moran argue about the value of Irish independence on their final shared Monaghan Day, permanently ending their friendship.

Rose meets Moran at the post office and begins a deliberate courtship, undeterred by the town's dark gossip about him.

Moran and Rose marry quickly in a small ceremony, with Rose's family reluctantly hosting the reception.

Rose redecorates the family home and takes over domestic duties, freeing Moran's daughters to pursue their own futures.

Rose convinces Moran to allow Maggie to apply for nursing training in London.

Maggie is accepted to a London hospital, and Luke agrees to meet her and help her settle there.

Moran refuses to support Sheila studying medicine, and she reluctantly accepts a civil service job in Dublin instead.

Sheila and Mona leave home for jobs in Dublin, leaving the household quiet and Michael without his sisters.

Michael meets Nell, an older woman visiting from New York, and begins a sexual relationship with her.

Michael and Moran come to blows in a physical fight, and Michael runs away to his sisters in Dublin.

After a second runaway, Michael's sisters help him board a boat to London to escape Moran for good.

Luke returns to Ireland for Sheila's wedding and briefly, coldly reunites with Moran for the first time in years.

Moran writes Luke a letter saying he never meant to hurt him and apologizes for past wrongs.

As Moran's health fails, his daughters gather devotedly around him and he begins to fear their determined care.

Moran dies peacefully surrounded by his family; Luke does not attend the wake or the funeral.

Amongst Women follows Michael Moran, a bitter Irish War of Independence veteran, whose estrangement from his old friend McQuaid leaves him resolving to remarry. He weds Rose, a returning nurse, whose practical love transforms the household and helps his daughters escape domestic servitude for careers abroad. Moran's controlling nature drives conflict with his children, particularly when he blocks Sheila from medical school and clashes physically with his youngest son Michael. His eldest son Luke has already fled years earlier and refuses all attempts at reunion, while the rest of the children gradually build independent lives in Dublin and London. In his final years, Moran grows ill and is surrounded by his devoted daughters, but dies without reconciling with Luke, who does not attend the wake or funeral.

The headline events that define Moran's family story.

Moran's adult daughters plan a Monaghan Day reunion at the family home to visit their ailing father.

Moran recalls his wartime experiences to his daughters, saying war is unglamorous but at least simple.

Rose's mother warns her against pursuing Moran, worried that Rose is giving up on herself entirely.

On his wedding day, Moran privately feels a violent dissatisfaction that his life is passing without any real meaning.

Moran takes Rose to the beach as a peace gesture after his explosive temper shocks and frightens her.

Moran waits anxiously for letters from Maggie after her departure for London, eager for news of her new life.

Moran is furious when Luke responds to Maggie's arrival in London with only a brief, impersonal telegram.

Maggie returns home from London for a three-week visit, and the whole family performs the backbreaking hay harvest together.

Sheila and Mona both receive excellent exam results and are offered civil service positions in Dublin.

Michael grows lonely after his sisters leave for Dublin and loses interest in his hobbies and animals.

Moran asks Maggie about Luke during a Christmas visit; she is deliberately evasive about her contact with him.

Maggie marries an Englishman named Mark in London; Moran and Rose approve of him but do not attend the wedding.

Michael eventually reconciles with Moran and resumes visiting the family home; the earlier fights are forgotten with time.

Moran receives two government pensions but continues farming even though the income is no longer necessary.

Luke refuses Maggie's invitation to return home for Monaghan Day despite having received Moran's letter of apology.

This pool traces the smaller but meaningful scenes that fill in the texture of life at Moran's household. It opens with his daughters planning a reunion to tend to their ill father and moves back through Rose's troubled courtship and Moran's private discontent on his wedding day. Daily life is marked by anxious waiting for letters, visits home, shared farm labour, and the steady departure of each child. Later years bring Maggie's marriage abroad, Michael's quiet reconciliation with his father, and Moran's continuing to work a farm he no longer needs financially. The pool closes with Luke's refusal to return home even after receiving his father's letter, underscoring the irreparable distance between them.

Quieter but significant moments that shaped the Moran family.

Moran and McQuaid reminisce warmly about fighting together in the war during what will be their last Monaghan Day.

Despite dark town rumours about Moran's past, Rose finds him intelligent and refreshingly unlike any other local man.

After the wedding, Moran's daughters and Rose quickly form a silent domestic alliance to manage life around Moran's unpredictable moods.

Rose first experiences the full force of Moran's explosive temper and understands she will bear much of his anger.

Moran wounds Rose by saying the family managed perfectly well without her; she threatens to leave him.

Maggie departs for London in tears; Moran assures her she will always have a home with him and Rose.

Sheila carries a deep, lasting resentment toward Moran for blocking her from medical school for the rest of his life.

Michael's growing sense of his own manhood and his late nights at dance halls create escalating conflict with Moran.

Moran catches Michael sneaking home late, locks him out, and strikes him, marking a violent new phase in their relationship.

Sheila brokers a temporary peace between Michael and Moran after his first runaway, convincing Michael to return home and finish school.

Luke tells Michael directly that he will never return to visit Moran at the family home.

All of Moran's children gather at the family home to help row hay; Moran and Rose are happily reminded of the full house.

Sheila deliberately limits how much time her own children spend with Moran, fearing he will damage their confidence as he did hers.

A weakening Moran spends quiet time admiring the beauty of his meadow, acknowledging he has never appreciated it enough.

Rose, Sheila, Maggie, and Mona alone tend devotedly to Moran's memory and burial; his sons remain absent.

This pool focuses on the moments of revelation and choice that quietly determine the fate of each character. It begins with the last warm memory Moran and McQuaid share before their friendship fractures, and moves through Rose's fateful decision to see past Moran's dark reputation and the shock of discovering his true temper. Central turning points include Sheila's forced surrender of her medical ambitions, Michael's violent break from Moran, and Sheila's brokered peace that only delays the inevitable second rupture. The later events show a family reshaped by those early decisions: Sheila consciously parenting differently from her father, Moran quietly reckoning with mortality in his meadow, and the women of the family standing as his sole mourners at the end.