# The Demi-Gods — Character guide

> Key figures in The Demi-Gods by James Stephens.

- [Patsy Mac Cann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/patsy_mac_cann.md): A tinker whose vanity bruises as easily as his fists fly, Patsy Mac Cann hauls a cart, a daughter, and a lifetime of grudges down the roads of Ireland.
- [Mary Mac Cann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/mary_mac_cann.md): Patsy's daughter, steady-eyed and practical, she keeps the cart, the donkey, and her volatile father moving when the road turns strange.
- [Eileen Ni Cooley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/eileen_ni_cooley.md): Red-haired, freckled, and notorious, Eileen Ni Cooley is the woman Patsy curses loudest and wants most, walking the same roads with another man.
- [Caeltia Mac Dea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/caeltia_mac_dea.md): A seraph who trades his silver-mounted pipe for a clay one and asks Patsy to throw his money in a ditch, Caeltia Mac Dea tests what men truly value.
- [Art](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/art.md): Big-boned, fearless, and beautiful enough to stop talk mid-sentence, Art moves through the world careless as wind and unaware of her own power.
- [Finaun Mac Dea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/finaun_mac_dea.md): One half of an eternal quarrel, Finaun Mac Dea plaits Mary's hair while discoursing on love and knowledge as if they were the same thing.
- [Brien O'Brien](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/brien_obrien.md): Brien O'Brien arrives in the pit already a legend among sinners, having earned the maximum punishment and then some. His relentless query — who stole the threepenny bit? — becomes a chant that spreads from torment to tor
- [Billy the Music](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/billy_the_music.md): Billy the Music trades tales with Patsy and Mac Cann, a fiddler and saving man who has given up saving. When the seraph Cuchulain confronts him as his Higher Self, Billy learns that every rotten business he ever did vibr
- [Cuchulain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/cuchulain.md): Cuchulain haunts the judgment seat of Rhadamanthus, chewing a golden curl and watching the damned tremble, until the judge points him among those to be judged. When ordered to give up what he holds, he answers 'Findings 
- [Rhadamanthus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/rhadamanthus.md): A mythological judge or figure from Greek myth, appearing as a character.
- [Padraig Mac Cann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/padraig_mac_cann.md): A member of the Mac Cann family, possibly a relative of Patsy.
- [Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_demi_gods_se/characters/father.md): A priest or paternal figure, appearing briefly in the narrative.

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