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Bailegangaire
Tom Murphy
Dancing At Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
Synopsis
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 up 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 this 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.
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Publication
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 80
Place London
Language English
ISBN-13 9780571144792
ISBN-10 0571144799
LCCN 91148773
LCC MLCS 91/18916 (P)
Dancing At Lughnasa is a British play written by Brian Friel and published by Faber & Faber in London (1998).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books .
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