Far and Away opens in Ireland in 1892 with tenant farmers rebelling against the lanlords because they feel they are being mistreated. It is totalchaos. Joe Dunley, the father of Joseph Dunley, was killed uring all of this. Joseph and his brothers were wrking (although Joseph was te only one really working) while their fathe went to town. Joseph's brothers start makingfun of him and they end up in a fiht. The boys stop fighting when their father is brought home. They took their father into the house,where he died. He came back to lif to talk to Joseph. Joseph told Joe that someday he would work his own land. Joe said that a man without lnd is nothing. Land is man's very own soul. After he said that, he died. During the funeral rocession for Joe, three men from the Christy plantation came to tell them that their ret has not been paid. They left a bill on Joe's coffin. Themen left and went to the Dunley's house. They set the house on fire. When Joseph got back,!.
he asvery agry, and h eft to fin Mr. Christy to get him back for his father's death.
Joseph left on a donkey and went to a pub. There, he found Christy. Christy left the pub drunk to go home. Joseph followed him. Joseph spent the night in the stable at the Christy plantation. Joseph found horseshoe right before he was found Shannon Christy, daughter of Daniel Christy, found Joseph in the stable. He stabbed him with a pitchfork in the leg. Shannon left the stable screaming for her father Daniel came out of the house, an Joseph came out of the stable. Joseph tried to shoot Daniel The gun backfired and knocked him on the ground. The Christy's took him in the house to take care of him and nurse him back to health. Shannon went over to check on Joseph and make sure he was O.K. While she was talking, Joseph died. She told him that she loved him, and he came back to life. They looked up and saw the people coming over the hill to claim their land, so they crawled over to the marker flag and pulled it out together they stuck Joseph's glag in the ground, and the land was theirs.