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"A Touch of the Poet"
by Eugene O'Neill

Title  A Touch of the Poet
Eugene O'Neill reached into his roots to uncover life for the Irish immigrant in 1828, Boston, right before the election of Andrew Jackson's second term. Before the deluge of famine immigrants in the 1840s, many of the Irish who came to the US were wealthy entrepreneurs. Mostly, Scots-Irish protestants, like Jackson. In our story, a tavern owner is both proud and ashamed of his Irish roots when his daughter wants to marry into a Boston Brahmin family. He knows the truth of his daughter's pedigree will not pass muster with the snobby background of the rich suitor. He believes he is high-class, but to his surprise, no one else in Boston does. (Or maybe it's just blarney.) Where so many come to the US for a step up in life, some find they've taken a step down.			Click picture for more info
Year   1974	Type   Drama	Rating   NR
Director  Kirk Browning		Writer  Eugene O'Neill
Cast  John Heffernan Nancy Marchand, Fritz Weaver, Roberta Maxwell,   Donald Moffat, Carrie Nye, Robert Phalen