Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia, Here I come!” is essentially a social commentary outlining Ireland’s problems during the 1960s. It explores the theme of failure while presenting the monotonous and predictable life of the citizens of Bellybeg,...

In his play Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Brian Friel utilizes the entirety of the storyline to develop and present the dramatic relationship between Madge Mulheren and Gareth O’Donnell. Quite quickly, Friel makes it evident to the audience that...

Brian Friel explores the inner dilemma of a young man living in rural Ireland in the 1960s, caught between the fear of leaving the ‘land of curlew and the snipe’ and his aspiration of a better life in the ‘pagan country of gross materialism’. The...

Brian Friel’s political play ‘Translations’ set in 1833, Baile Beag, is about: British Imperial rule over Ireland in the 1830s; how the British Military enforced 'translations' of the ancient Gaelic language into English to subjugate the Irish;...

‘Translations’ by Brian Friel is a play with an overriding purpose to raise awareness about the struggles faced by the Irish community, specifically what they had to endure?ensure with the British military’s attempts to eradicate of eradication of...

This essay will examine the scene in which Maire and Yolland finally kiss from Brian Friel’s play “Translations” and the poem “Meeting Point” by Louis MacNeice to discuss how both authors present love as something which transcends universal...

In ‘Song of Soloman’ and ‘Translations’ Morrison and Friel present racial domination through the viewpoint of the oppressed minority group, respectively African-Americans and Irish nationalists. The concept of racial domination can be defined as...

Heritage appears as a central theme both to ‘Translations’ and ‘District and Circle’. Heritage can be described within the context of these texts as a set of ideas, traditions or explicit values that gives a sense of identity or belonging to a...

Dependency on agricultural livestock, the number of cattle declining by 10%, low wages and increasing levels of emigration: this is rural Ireland in 1936. Set in the small fictional town Ballybeg, the rural-pastoral trope constantly underlies the...