and beautiful mother maire aherne is endowed with the quiet dignity of my baro pishi beautiful and widowed ray realized after hed finished the pen portrait and then of course theres estelle obrian who later rose to fame as the famed beauty merle oberon in fact youll be startled by the realization that odwyer dyer and tegart all came from ireland primarily to curb indian nationalists who were greatly inspired by the irish movement for selfrule an irish nun one day said our family had to go from pillar to post with a bowl begging for food far fetched why just her scratch the surface and youll see irelands all around us says ray who loved to distraction miss doreen in miss b hartleys kinder garden she too was irish everywhere human beings are the same no matter where he goes from nor where he goes to in search of bread butter and better rules