Dancing at Lughnasa (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Friel
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Summer, 1936
- Setting: County Donegal, Ireland
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Rural or country life, 1930’s, Sisters, Ireland or Irish people, Peasantry or peasants, Paganism
- Locales: Donegal, Ireland
Characters Discussed
Kate Mundy, a parochial grade-school teacher in Ballybeg (Irish for “small town”), County Donegal. She is the only steady wage earner in the family, which includes her fallen-priest brother, Jack; her four younger sisters, all unmarried; and her illegitimate nephew, seven-year-old Michael. She is the stabilizing economic and social force holding the family together. Her dismissal from her teaching position because of Father Jack’s heterodoxy is another straw added to the weight of community dissolution. She winds up tutoring privately in the family of...
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