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'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan

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  • Name the protagonist/main character played by Cillian Murphy?
    Bill Furlong
  • What is the name of Bill's wife?
    Eileen
  • Whoo runs the convent in the town?
    The Church/The Nuns
  • Magdalene laundries were designed to "help" who?
    "Fallen women" or unmarried mothers
  • During what time of year does the story take place?
    Christmas/Winter
  • Furlong had come from nothing. Less than nothing, some might say. His mother, at the age of sixteen, had fallen pregnant while working as a domestic for Mrs. Wilson, the Protestant widow who lived in the ___ house a few miles outside of tow
    big
  • What does it mean to be 'complicit'
    helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way
  • Complete the following quote "if you want to get on in life, there are some things you have to...?"
    ignore
  • Name the man who was believed to be Bill's father.
    Ned
  • What job does Bill Furlong have?
    Coal merchant
  • Who says the following quote: “But if we just mind what we have here and stay on the right side of people and soldier on, none of ours will ever have to endure the likes of what them girls go through.
    Eileen
  • Who wrote the novel 'Small Things Like These'?
    Claire Keegan
  • Why is Bill afraid to speak out against what he sees?
    He is afraid of damaging his family's life/reputation
  • What happened to Bill's mother when she was a child?
    She passed away suddenly
  • How many daughter's do Bill and his wife have?
    Five
  • Where is the story set?
    New Ross, Co. Wexford
  • Name the woman who allowed Bill and his mother to live in her home.
    Mrs. Wilson
  • What does Bill discover in the cow shed?
    A girl from the convent