Finian's Rainbow - The Legend of the Rainbow's Promise
Woody Mahoney:
How'd you get so pretty? And so rich?
Sharon McLonergan:
Well, you see, in Glocca Morra, where we come from, there's an old legend, and it says: You'll never grow old and you'll never grow poor, if you look to the rainbow, beyond the next moor.
Woody Mahoney:
That's a lovely legend.
Sharon McLonergan:
Aye.
Woody Mahoney:
I wonder who thought it up.
Sharon McLonergan:
My father: Finian McLonnergan.
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Finian's Rainbow - Debate Over Legality of Local Ordinance
Senator Billboard Rawkins:
You've been violating the law, here.
Finian McLonergan:
Since when?
Senator Billboard Rawkins: [reading]
This afternoon. I just finished drafting this. Local ordinance number 7428: be it known that in the county of Rainbow Valley, it is a felony for members of the Caucasian and Negro races...
Finian McLonergan:
But it seems to me that this law could not be a legal law...
Senator Billboard Rawkins:
Of course it's legal! I don't know where you immigrants get these radical, foreign ideas!
Sharon McLonergan:
From a wee book the immigration officer handed us. It's called The United States Constitution.
Finian McLonergan:
Haven't you read it?
Senator Billboard Rawkins:
I don't have time to read it, I'm too busy defending it!
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Finian's Rainbow - Cultural Differences Between America and Ireland
Finian McLonergan:
What do you think makes America different from Ireland?
Sharon McLonergan:
It has more Irishmen?
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Finian's Rainbow - Wealth and Poverty in America
Finian McLonergan:
America is full of millionaires.
Sharon McLonergan:
But Father, are there no ill clad or ill housed in America?
Finian McLonergan:
Aye, but they're the best ill clad and the best ill housed in the world.
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Finian's Rainbow - Dispute Over Ownership of Gold
Sharon McLonergan: [looking in Finian's bag]
It's gold!
Finian McLonergan:
Aye, it's a pot of gold.
Sharon McLonergan:
And you stole it!
Finian McLonergan:
I did not steal it! I only borrowed.
Sharon McLonergan:
Who did you borrow it from?
Finian McLonergan:
Why do you want to know?
Sharon McLonergan:
So we can lend it right back to him, that's why!
Finian McLonergan:
That's impossible! He's not mortal.
Sharon McLonergan:
You killed him!
Finian McLonergan:
Of course not! He never was mortal. He's a leprechaun.
Sharon McLonergan:
A leprechaun?
Finian McLonergan:
Of course! Who else would have gold in Ireland?
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