Rugged scenery and wild Atlantic made Kerry choice for love story backdrop

TWICE Oscar-winning director David Lean, whose films also include Doctor Zhivago and A Passage To India, chose the Dingle Peninsula as the location for Ryan’s Daughter because of its rugged scenery and the Atlantic backdrop.

Lean’s epic tale of forbidden love, set during the 1916 Rebellion, tells the story of Charles Shaughnessy, played by Robert Mitchum, who falls in love with and marries the much younger Rosy (Sarah Miles).

However, Rosy soon becomes involved in an affair with a young British officer who arrives in the area and she is soon suspected of passing on information about rebels to the British authorities.