"James You won't know me when I come back."

When James Whelan wins a job that takes him from Kilbegan to Dublin, he promises that once he comes back he will start a business, give employment and ask Nan Bowers to marry him. 

Seven years later Nan - married and widowed since he left - comes in to ask for work, opening old wounds for the two of them. Wife to James Whelan is a close examination of how we get in the way of our own happiness. Written by Ireland's "lost genius" Teresa Deevy, it was rediscovered by Jonathan Bank's Mint Theater Company in 2010.