Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday is the occasion Cushla Lavery later reexamines for a possible link between Tommy McGeown and Michael Agnew. A call made to thank her for chocolate returns to her as a small, uncertain detail in the aftermath of Tommy’s arrest and the McGeowns’ displacement.

The remembered call

On Easter Sunday, Tommy phoned Cushla to thank her for the chocolate. She answered with Michael Agnew’s first name, and Tommy later recalled that moment when he called at her house. In the later crisis, Cushla retraces the conversations she had with Tommy, wondering whether she had inadvertently revealed something about Michael.

Retrospective significance

The date matters because it pins the exchange to a specific occasion, allowing Cushla to revisit it as possible evidence. Yet the clue remains inconclusive: she had not used Michael’s surname, and she recognizes that the name could refer to anyone. Easter Sunday therefore marks not a confirmed disclosure but the moment around which her suspicion gathers—that Tommy might somehow have learned of Michael, and that her own casual response may have contributed.