"Shawn Kelvin, a blithe young lad of 20, went to the
States to seek his fortune. And 15 years thereafter he returned to his native
Kerry, his blitheness sobered and his youth dried to the core, and whether he
had made his fortune or whether he had not no one could be knowing for certain.
For he was a quiet man, not given to talking about himself and the things he
had done. A quiet man, under middle size, with strong shoulders and deep-set
blue eyes below brows darker than his dark hair - that was Shawn
Kelvin."
Thus begins Walsh's original short story as it was published in the
Saturday Evening Post in February of 1933. It was
subsequently revised and published with other Walsh stories of the same
era, the characters and contents of which were molded by Director John Ford and
Screenwriter Frank S. Nugent over more than a decade into the 1952 Academy
Award-winning motion picture starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, and
Victor McLaglen.
Caledonia Skytower presents The Quiet Man , live on
stream in Ceiliuradh Glen.
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