Sean soon learns from Michaeleen where she is, races his horse to the train station, and pulls her off the train. However, the next morning, Mary Kate quietly leaves their cottage and boards a train for Dublin, hoping this pretense of leaving will spur Sean to action. She and Sean partially reconcile that night, and they share the bedroom for the first time since their marriage. Mary Kate also confesses (in Irish Gaelic) her part in the quarrel to Father Lonergan, who berates her for her selfishness. Sean had sworn to give up fighting out of fear and guilt over the manslaughter. Cyril Playfair, and reveals that he once accidentally killed a younger, married opponent in the ring. Sean goes to local Protestant Minister and fellow former boxer, Rev. Mary Kate believes Sean is a coward for not fighting Will. The villagers eventually persuade Will to release Mary Kate's furniture, but Will refuses to hand over the monetary part of the dowry. She insists that the dowry must be received to validate their marriage, causing an estrangement between her and Sean. Sean, unschooled in Irish customs, professes no interest in obtaining the dowry but to Mary Kate, the dowry represents her personal value to the community and her freedom. He gleefully allows the marriage, but he refuses to give Mary Kate her dowry when he finds he was deceived. Some village residents, including Father Peter Lonergan and local matchmaker-cum- bookmaker Michaeleen Óge Flynn, trick Will Danaher into believing that Widow Tillane will marry him if Mary Kate is no longer under his roof. Will then retaliates by refusing consent for Sean to marry his sister. Will also wants to buy the old Thornton property, and is angered when the property's current owner, the wealthy Widow Tillane, accepts Sean's bid instead of his. Shortly after arriving, he meets and falls in love with fiery, red-headed Mary Kate Danaher, the sister of bullying Squire "Red" Will Danaher. In the 1920s, Sean "Trooper Thorn" Thornton, an Irish-born retired boxer from Pittsburgh, travels to his birthplace of Inisfree to purchase the old family farm. Mary Kate ( Maureen O'Hara) and Sean (John Wayne)
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