Far and Away opens in Ireland in 1892 with tenant farmers rebelling against the lanlords because they feel they are being mistreated. It is totalchaos. Joe Dunley, the father of Joseph Dunley, was killed uring all of this. Joseph and his brothers were wrking (although Joseph was te only one really working) while their fathe went to town. Joseph's brothers start makingfun of him and they end up in a fiht. The boys stop fighting when their father is brought home. They took their father into the house,where he died. He came back to lif to talk to Joseph. Joseph told Joe that someday he would work his own land. Joe