# The Unicorn from the Stars — Character guide

> Key figures in The Unicorn from the Stars by Lady Gregory.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): This presence hovers over the workshop and the road, weighing Thomas's blunt pragmatism against Father John's mysticism and the beggars' hunger for a leader. It registers the tension between a trade that lasts generation
- [Johnny Bacach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/johnny_bacach.md): Johnny Bacach has spent eight months in gaol and finds the countryside alive with drillings, plunder plans, and a leader said to have come from France. He is cautious, skeptical of Paudeen's hero-worship, yet drawn towar
- [Father John Thomas Hearne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/father_john_thomas_hearne.md): Father John moves between the inner room where Martin lies senseless and the workshop where Thomas frets over the gilded coach. He insists that trance and vision belong to the saints, not to doctors' bottles, and sees in
- [Andrew Beggars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/andrew_beggars.md): Andrew Hearne was shaped by his brother's watchful discipline, pulled back from wandering and pressed into the business when poverty nipped. He is the one sent for the doctor, yet he lingers with the troop of beggars out
- [God](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/god.md): Referenced as a divine figure, often invoked by characters.
- [Andrew Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/andrew_martin.md): Andrew Martin moves through the early scenes as a connective figure, reporting on Martin's trance and the doctor's arrival while brushing against the beggars gathered outside. His position between the settled trade and t
- [Martin Hearne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/martin_hearne.md): Martin Hearne came home six months ago and threw himself into building a golden coach that has now been ordered by the Lord Lieutenant himself. But the flashing light on the lion and unicorn ornament has thrown him into 
- [Johnny Gibbons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/johnny_gibbons.md): Johnny Gibbons is the outlaw hero whispered about in quarries and shebeens, a man who learned his trade in France and comes home to a countryside already primed for rising. He is spoken of before he is seen, his name a p
- [Biddy Lally](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/biddy_lally.md): Biddy Lally moves through the rebellion's wreckage with a bag open and a grudge ready, measuring silks and velvets against the risk of the red soldiers. She is quick to credit the leader's daring and quicker to notice wh
- [Nanny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/nanny.md): An older female character, possibly a servant or relative.
- [The Doctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/the_doctor.md): A medical professional who appears in the story.
- [Father John Men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/father_john_men.md): A minor character, possibly a different priest or figure.
- [Paudeen Columcille](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_unicorn_from_the_stars_se/characters/paudeen_columcille.md): A minor character with a religious or historical name.

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