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Bill Furlong

This character runs a coal and timber delivery company and faces moral tests throughout the story.

Eileen Furlong

This character manages a household with five children and is a pragmatic manager of money and emotions.

Mrs. Wilson

This character is a wealthier woman in town, a Protestant, who takes in an unwed mother and child and provides a home and care for them.

Ned

This character is a caretaker at a wealthy person's estate in New Ross.

Bill Furlong's Mother

This character becomes pregnant out of wedlock and is shunned by the character's family and later taken in by a wealthy person the character works for.

Sarah Redmond

This character is being abused at a convent in New Ross and eventually extracted by the person who delivers the coal.

Mother Superior

This character runs the convent and is ruthless.

Mrs. Kehoe

This character runs a restaurant in...

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