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1. Brian Friel

Dancing at Lughnasa

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2. Ivan Sergeevich , Turgenev

A Month in the Country (Friel)

In the introduction, Brian Friel identifies the novelty of Turgenev's drama "where psychological and poetic elements create a theatre of moods and where the action resides in internal emotion and secret turmoil". His lively, comic play describes the course of a passionately eventful summer month in which Natalya, luminous, anguished and possessed by love, is left to recover a measure of happiness after her turbulent disquiet.

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Stories of Ireland

A solid gold treat from top to tail. A tremendous set of stories by the great Irish playwright

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Molly Sweeney

"Dispassionate eloquence and psychological honesty…. Brian Friel's writing has such vitality and warmth, such kindly accuracy of observation." - London Sunday Times From one of Ireland's best living playwrights, this striking piece of dramatic writing is a daring piece of theater. Keeping the play's three characters on stage at all times to speak directly to the audience, Brian Friel presents three points of view to the same intriguing tale. Molly herself, blind since she was an infant, tells of her world before and after an operation to try to restore her sight. Her husband, itinerant champion of good causes, talks of his passion to help her. Her once famous eye surgeon, now a whiskey-sodden recluse in Donegal, sees the operation as his chance to reclaim his reputation. Each of their voices interweaves, threading in and out with details, spinning a lush and sensate narrative, and carrying us effortlessly to an unexpected and poignant conclusion. Deceptively simple, yet richly multilayered-combining both an insightful story about the way we perceive our existence with an allegory for our times-Molly Sweeney is an Irish storyteller's art to create an unforgettable theater piece, painting scenery and rousing emotions with nothing more than the simple purity of beautifully rendered words.

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Nga Whakamaoritanga

Kei tetahi wharekura i te papakainga o Baile Beag, i tetahi hapori korero Airihi i te whaitua o Tonekara i te pito o te marama o Akuhata, i te tau 1833, nga mahi o te whakaari nei. E hopuni mai ana i tetahi parae tutata tetahi wahanga o te Kahui Kaipukaha a te Kingi katahi ano ka tae mai, a, ko ta ratou mahi he whakaoti i te ruritanga whanui tuatahi. I te mahi hanga mahere whenua, i tuhia nga ingoa wahi Airihi ki te reo Ingarihi. E whakaatu mai ana a Brian Friel i te panga o te mahi whakahaere noa iho nei ki te ahurea me te tangata i roto i tana titiro ki te panga o tenei mahi ki te ao o tetahi hunga iti. E whakanui ana ia i nga tuakiri me nga whanaungatanga i waenganui i taua hunga me te whakatakoto tahi i te korero whakaara whakaaro mo te hitori mo te Airihi me te Ingarihi. 'It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language,' wrote Brian Friel (1929-2015). Indeed, there is no other literary text that embodies the complex relationship between language, identity, and power more directly than his play Translations, set in 1833. There is, however, another text that does: the founding document of Aotearoa, The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840. 'It is thus fitting that the story told in such a smart and smarting way by the great Irish playwright can now be read in te reo Maori. Hemi Kelly, one of this country's foremost translators, and Peter Ryan, the first Ambassador of Ireland to Aotearoa, deserve our whakawhetai and our whakamihi for guiding the waka of multilingual and multicultural understanding from the Atlantic to the Pacific.' --Marco Sonzogni, New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation, Te Herenga Wak

1. Brian Friel

Dancing at Lughnasa

A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland's greatest playwrights.