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The Harp in the South is a book (ISBN 0140104569) by Australian author Ruth Park. The book is based in Surry Hills, where the author herself lived. It was written in 1948, and portrays the life of a Catholic Irish family, the Darcys, living in Surry Hills, which was at that time an inner city slum.

The book has enjoyed widespread international success up until the present, and is frequently used in Australia as a Higher School Certificate study text.

Television

A serialised TV adaptation was made for Australian television and transmitted on the Ten Network in 1987.

Cast

Mumma Darcy - (Anne Phelan)

Hughie Darcy - (Martyn Sanderson)

Roie Darcy - (Anna Hruby)

Dolour Darcy - (Kaarin Fairfax)

Grandma Kilker - (Gwen Plumb)

Pat Diamond - (Syd Conabere)

Miss. Sheily - (Melissa Jaffer)

Charlie Rothe - (Shane Connor)

Tommy Mendel - (Brandon Burke)

Johnny Sheily - (Ken Radley)

Mrs. Campion - (Lois Ramsay)

Lick Jimmy - (Cecil Parkee)

Delie Stock - (Carole Skinner)

Father Cooley - (Charles Tingwell)

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