Dancing at Lughnasa (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Friel
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Summer, 1936
- Setting: County Donegal, Ireland
- Principal Characters: Michael Mundy, Kate, Maggie, Agnes, Rose, Chris, Gerry Evans, Jack
- 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
The Story:
The adult Michael reflected aloud on the summer of 1936, when he was seven years old and lived in rural County Donegal. His mother Chris, his father Gerry, his uncle Father Jack, and his four aunts formed a silent, motionless tableau as the backdrop for his monologue. That was the summer they got their first radio and their first contact with Dublin music. It was also the summer in which Father Jack, sick, came home to die after twenty-five years of missionary work in Uganda, uninterrupted except for a brief stint as a chaplain in the British army, which explained...
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