An unvarnished account of the troubled shooting, both on and off camera, of the film
Ryan's Daughter, winner of two Oscars. It tells how the movie's stars--Robert Mitchum.
Sarah Miles. Trevor Howard. Christopher Jones, and John Mills--coped with a year
on Ireland's west coast in 1969. as told through personal accounts of local people
who were drivers, extras, prop men, landladies, actors or mere observers. Also included
is a gazetteer to the locations used on the Dingle Peninsula and elsewhere in Kerry
to enable fans to follow in Rosy Ryan's footsteps. Packed with pictures and archive
material, much never published before, this is the behind-the-scenes story of a film
which changed the Dingle Peninsula overnight, saw more antics than usual by stars
off and on set, and resulted in David Lean making no film for 14 years, so fraught
was the experience.
