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"Far and Away" resonates with me, as an Irish-American. My great-grandparents emigrated to the U.S. prior to the turn of the previous century, and the events leading up to Joseph and Shannon's arrival in Boston is undoubtedly what drove my ancestors to Boston as well. One of the critics on IMDB claims that the film is total fabrication, an opinion with which I disagree. Ron Howard used historical circumstances to create a romantic film about an Irish couple whose goal was to obtain land of their own in America. The goal became more pronounced when Shannon's parents became equally determined to achieve the same goal, and of course the demon, Stephen Chase, doesn't get Shannon nor does he get a plot of land in Oklahoma. Director/writer Ron Howard got everything right in "Far and Away!"