Translations (Faber Drama)

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The action takes place in overdue August 1833 at a hedge-school within the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a close-by field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the primary Ordnance Survey. For the needs of cartography, the local Gaelic place names must be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the results of this operation at the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the a ways-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is in the beginning sight purely administrative.

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