Darby O’Gill and the Good People · Character
Eileen McCarthy
Cormac's young daughter, whose small appetite and smaller future weigh on every bargain her father makes.
supporting
Also known as McCarthy, Poor Eileen
First appearance: darby o gill and the good people
As a supporting figure in Darby O’Gill and the Good People, Eileen McCarthy is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The dying young bride for whom Darby is sent to fetch help.
Eileen is the child Cormac McCarthy means to keep alive on the earnings of his stone-cutting tools after the banshee has driven him to offer Darby everything he owns. She is spoken of with tender worry — 'poor Eileen,' the crachure who 'ates little at the best of times' — and her vulnerability is the measure of her father's desperation. Her fate shadows the banshee episode and gives the village's supernatural terrors a human cost.
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Character groups
- Village Dramatis Personae
- Protagonist
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Eileen is a young woman in the village whom Darby knows and interacts with as part of the… How this plays out →
- Cormac McCarthy
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- Darby O'Gill
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Eileen is a young woman in the village whom Darby knows and interacts with as part of the… How this plays out →
- Cormac McCarthy
family · positive
- Darby O'Gill
social · positive
Eileen is a young woman in the village whom Darby knows and interacts with as part of the… How this plays out →
- Cormac McCarthy
family · positive
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