- Maurya: Grief-stricken widow and mother of eight children Cathleen, Nora, Bartley, Shawn, Sheamus, Stephen, Patch, and Michael.
- Cathleen: Maurya's elder daughter, tries to keep her mother from dying from grief by identifying her deceased brother Michael's clothing.
- Nora: Maurya's younger daughter, helps her sister with their mother.
- Bartley: Maurya's youngest and only living son, has died by the end of the play.
- Maurya's sons Shawn, Sheamus, Stephen, Patch, and Michael, as well as Maurya's husband are all deceased when the play begins.
- There is also a priest character who is never seen but is quoted by Cathleen and Nora in the beginning of the play.
- Eamon Simon, Stephen Pheety, and Colum Shawn are the neighbors and friends of Bartley.
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