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Translations | Brian Friel
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The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative. "Translations" is a modern classic. It engages the intellect as well as the heart, and achieves a profound political and philosophical resonance through the detailed examination of individual lives, of particular people in particular place and time." Daily Telegraph "This is Brian Friel's finest play, his most deeply thought and felt, the most deeply involved with Ireland but also the most universal: haunting and hard, lyrical and erudite, bitter and forgiving, both praise and lament." Sunday Times
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Onioons
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Really enjoyed this at The Limetree on Friday night 📜

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Moll
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A great little read for my time in Dublin☘

'It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.'

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Moll
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Felt fitting for my weekend in Dublin☘☘☘

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Emilymdxn
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Translations at the National! Feeling so lucky to be here. I loved this play so much when I first read it, incredible to think that must have been like ten years ago now when I was thirteen or fourteen, and I‘m so happy to finally be seeing it live. Interval now and I can‘t remember at all what happens in the second half so excited to see

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Lacythebookworm
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Along with my #FeedAReader package, I also received some other good bookish mail! 📚❤️

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BooksForYears
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It's hard to believe that a whole week has gone by since the first #CentralPALittens (I'm taking liberties in creating the hashtag) meetup! These are the books I picked up at Winding Way Books; I hope to read a few of them in June:
•GOD WENT TO BEAUTY SCHOOL by Cynthia Roland (poetry)
•IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis (fiction)
•TRANSLATIONS by Brian Friel (play)
•THE HEIDI CHRONICLES & UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS by Wendy Wasserstein (plays)

Robothugs It doesn't feel like a week! 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Love the hashtag! When should we go to Midtown Scholar? How about July? @robothugs 7y
Robothugs July sounds good to me. @BarbaraTheBibliophage 7y
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kyraleseberg God Went to Beauty School 🙌😍😍😍 7y
Jennifer3 So cool you all did a meet up, too bad I left PA years ago or I would join you! 7y
kspenmoll Saw Heidi Chronicles years ago and so enjoyed the play! 7y
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cleoh
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This story revolves around English officers sent to Ireland to rename cities and landmarks with "more recognizable" names. It's short and sweet, with a tragic ending, but has a few funny moments when two people who don't speak the same language say the same thing and the other doesn't understand. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #litsyreadingchallenge #set150yearsago @jessica #LitsyAtoZauthors @BookishMarginalia

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cleoh
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More book mail, friends! Just waiting on one more book from Amazon and I'll finally have all the books I need to read this term 😍🎉

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wellreadredhead
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Amazing postcolonial literature. Definitely will read again in the future.

ladyclassics I loved this play! Such an entertaining, tragic satire! 8y
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ephemeralwaltz
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Assigned reading afternoons 📚

Libby1 This is an excellent play and Buncrana people are lovely. ☺️ (I used to live in Derry.) 8y
ephemeralwaltz 😂 good to know 😄 I am certainly enjoying it so far! 8y
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fitzkaitlin
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"It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language." -Brian Friel (Translations)
My Rating: 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️