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Ryan's Hope

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Ryan's Hope  is an American  soap opera  created by  Claire Labine  and  Paul Avila Mayer , airing for 13 years on  ABC  from July 7, 1975, to January 13, 1989. [1]  It revolves around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American family in the  Washington Heights  neighborhood of  Manhattan ,  New York City . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%27s_Hope

Ryan's Daughter

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  Ryan's Daughter  is a 1970 British [6]   epic   romantic drama  film directed by  David Lean , written by  Robert Bolt  and starring  Robert Mitchum  and  Sarah Miles . [7] [8]  The film, set between August 1917 and January 1918, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during  World War I , despite moral and political opposition from her nationalist neighbours. The supporting cast features  John Mills ,  Christopher Jones ,  Trevor Howard  and  Leo McKern . The film is a re-telling of the plot of  Gustave Flaubert 's 1857 novel  Madame Bovary .   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%27s_Daughter