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I can't express the depth of my thanks for all the help you've given me, Aghadowey and Kiltaglassan.

Ahh thank you. Yes, most likely Sorca (Sorcha nowadays now that the buailte has been replaced by h) is Sarah. He probably had no reason to return to Ireland, sadly. They seem to have been a family devoid of extension.
Looked it up, and while Helena Molony was a member of the Abbey's Second Company and then promoted to the First Company, she toured in Britain but not in America. Just having a quick look in the Stage Yearbook to see if she appears, but the search takes a kludgy while.

Once I had Michael Molony's second marriage in the church records I was able to find it in the civil records - not by searching by his name, but by O'Hanlon's. But what's that he's calling his father? It looks more like Reddery than Reddy
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1887/10820/5946111.pdf
And the wicked stepmother - I looked through the various deaths without any luck - my heart went pit-a-pat when I found one around the right age who was a "provisioner" but no, her son PJ Moloney was on the spot, so not her.

Discharged to the care of rather than to the nearest relative/friend list (Patrick Anderson). In other words, although Patrick was a uncle they were going to stay with someone else in N.Y.

Search page- https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
fill in M (surname), H (forename), 28 (age), select Dublin (county) and female (sex). Also county of origin (Dublin).

Brings up 1 entry-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?searchMoreVisible=true&census_year=1911&surname=m&firstname=h&county19011911=Dublin&county1821=&county1831=&county1841=&county1851=&parish=&ward=&barony=&townland=&houseNumber=&ded=&age=28&sex=F&search=Search&ageInMonths=&relationToHead=&religion=&education=&occupation=&marriageStatus=&yearsMarried=&birthplace=Dublin&nativeCountry=&language=&deafdumb=&causeOfDeath=&yearOfDeath=&familiesNumber=&malesNumber=&femalesNumber=&maleServNumber=&femaleServNumber=&estChurchNumber=&romanCatNumber=&presbNumber=&protNumber=&marriageYears=&childrenBorn=&childrenLiving=

Click on that entry and you get long list of names and links below then-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Drumcondra/Gracepark_Road/14157/

Click on Prison Return (form K)- 1st option which brings you to this page which shows name of institution at top-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000027863/

The entry for H.M. is on additional page 7 towards bottom of page-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000027871/

Ahh. Thank you. They have her initials reversed?

It's Disch = discharged.

What would that mean on a ship's manifest?