Ward Bond credited as playing...
Father Peter Lonergan
- Father Peter Lonergan: Ah, yes... I knew your people, Sean. Your grandfather; he died in Australia... in a penal colony. And your father, he was a good man too.
- Mary Kate Danaher: Father, could I... tell you in the Irish?
- Father Peter Lonergan: [distracted, fishing] Sea, sea.
- Mary Kate Danaher: [very hesitantly] Níor lig mé m'fhear chéile isteach i mo leaba liom aréir. Chuir mé fuinneamh air a chodladh i - Ó, i mála codlata! Mála codlata!
- Father Peter Lonergan: Céad é sin? "Bag?"
- Mary Kate Danaher: Sleeping bag, Father, with... with buttons! Más breá é, níor rith sé ar a shon. An peaca é?
- Father Peter Lonergan: [exasperated] Woman, Ireland may be a poor country, God help us. But here, a married man sleeps in a bed, not a bag!
- Father Paul: Father! Father Lonergan!
- Father Peter Lonergan: [not wanting to disturb the fish] Ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh.
- Father Paul: It's a big fight in the town!
- Father Peter Lonergan: Listen, there's a big fight in this fish right here, too.
- Father Paul: I'd have put a stop to it, but seeing it's...
- Father Peter Lonergan: You do that, lad. It's your duty.
- Father Paul: But seeing it was Danaher and Sean Thornton...
- [Father Lonergan turns at stares at Father Paul in amazement]
- Father Peter Lonergan: WHO?
- Father Paul: Danaher and Sean Thornton!
- Father Peter Lonergan: WELL WHY THE DEVIL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME? Oh, you young...
- [Throws down his fishing rod and the two run back into town. They abruptly stop behind a gate]
- Father Paul: Father, shouldn't we put a stop to it now?
- Father Peter Lonergan: [relishing the fight from a distance] Ah, we should, lad; yes, we should, it's our duty!
- [first lines]
- Father Peter Lonergan: [narrating] Well, then. Now. I'll begin at the beginnin'. A fine soft day in the spring, it was, when the train pulled into Castletown, three hours late as usual, and Himself got off. He didn't have the look of an American tourist at all about him. Not a camera on him; what was worse, not even a fishin' rod.
- Michaleen Flynn: Sean, this is Father Lonergan. Father, would you believe it? This is Sean Thornton, born right here in Innisfree, home from America.
- Sean Thornton: Hello, Father.
- Father Peter Lonergan: Ah yes, I knew your people, Sean. Your grandfather. He died in Australia... in a penal colony. And your father, he was a good man too.
- Father Paul: [surprised when Father Lonergon restrains him and doesn't break up the big fight] Father, shouldn't we put a stop to it now?
- Father Peter Lonergan: [obviously enjoying the fight] Ah we should, lad, yes we should, it's our duty...
- [feigns boxing moves]
- Father Peter Lonergan: it's our duty...
- "Red Will" Danaher: Father? Little Flynn?
- Father Peter Lonergan: Well, I can't say it's true, and I won't say it's not, but there's been talk.
- Father Peter Lonergan: When the Reverend Mr Playfair comes down, I want us all to cheer like Protestants.