Ryan's Daughter" is, in outline, a respectable, never-meant-to-be love story, set in 1916 on the wild west coast of Ireland where, except for a small British garrison and the high rate of unemployment, the "troubles" in Dublin seem extremely remote. Rosy Ryan (Sarah Miles), the daughter of Kirrary's publican, is a sweet, responsive girl whose dreams have been shaped by Byron, Beethoven and Captain Blood, and by pulp fiction on the order of something titled "The King's Mistress.