The story revolves around Bridgid Mary Mangan, who is in love with a Republican would-be gunman, Dennis. Dennis gets his wish soon enough and gets shot by the English, leaving Bridgid Mary no choice but to join a religious nursing order of quasi-nuns. There, she meets and nurses back to physical and spiritual health the young English lieutenant, Kenneth Boyd, who shot her young love. At play's end, he has fallen in love with her but is off to convalesce in England, where he will wait for her if she would care to marry him. Stars Julie Harris
