Dancing at Lughnasa | The Characters in Dancing at Lughnasa
Elmer Andrews presents a detailed analysis of the characters and the importance of their “individual experiences’’ in the play.
Friel’s play is set in 1936, in the months when De Valera was drawing up his Catholic Constitution for a Catholic people. ‘Will you vote for De Valera, will you vote?’ sings Maggie to Rose’s song about Abyssinia. These women are the victims of an oppressively Catholic ethos, shortly to be enshrined in a Constitution which recognised ‘the Family as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of society’ and ‘the special position of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church as the guardian of the faith professed by the great majority of its citizens’. Responding...
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