A High Meadow is full of comedy, tragedy and melodrama, all centred
around the village of Ballybobawn and Eddie Drannaghy, the Ram of God (a
former trainee priest who was cynically seduced by the American wife of
his cousin, fathered a child and was forced to leave the seminary), and
his brothers Murt and Will.
John B. Keane weaves an inimitable tapestry of rural life: people good
and bad, weak and powerful - gardaí, priests, and travellers, and
towering above them all the personality of the Ram of God.