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Blog – The Quiet Man movie-click here The Quiet Man is an Irish Classic!! Made in 1952 in the area of Cong, County Mayo it stars John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. It is a romantic, comedy, drama directed by John Ford. Highlighting the beautiful Irish scenery it is based on an American who goes over to Ireland to forget his past. Filmed as if in the 1920’s Sean ‘Trooper Thorn’ Thornton, an irish born retired boxer travels home from Pittsburgh to his birth place of Inisfree to buy the old family farm. He meets and falls in love with a