Desmond and deirdre doyle will have been married for twenty-five years in October. It falls to the doyles' eldest daughter, anna, to decide how best to commemorate her parents' Silver Wedding. No use asking her sister he...Desmond and deirdre doyle will have been married for twenty-five years in October. It falls to the doyles' eldest daughter, anna, to decide how best to commemorate her parents' Silver Wedding. No use asking her sister helen, living in her London convent, or her brother brendan, who has chosen another form of exile on a bleak farm in the west of Ireland.