Dancing at Lughnasa
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Dancing at Lughnasa
By (Author) Brian Friel
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
Primary and Secondary Educational
Non Fiction
822.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
80
Width 125mm, Height 198mm, Spine 5mm
70g
Description
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of the menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part.
Reviews
"There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses." --The Times
Author Bio
Born 9 January 1929, Catholic, in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel is one of Ireland's most prominent playwrights. In addition to his published plays, he has written short stories; screenplays; film, TV and Radio adaptations of his plays; and several pieces of non-fiction on the role of theatre and the artist.
