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Translations (Faber Drama) Paperback – March 16, 1995

by Brian Friel (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
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The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.

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“Translations is a modern classic. It engages the intellect as well as the heart, and achieves a profound political and philosophical resonance through the detailed examination of individual lives, of particular people in particular place and time.” ―Daily Telegraph

“This is Brian Friel's finest play, his most deeply thought and felt, the most deeply involved with Ireland but also the most universal: haunting and hard, lyrical and erudite, bitter and forgiving, both praise and lament.” ―Sunday Times

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Brian Friel was born in Omagh, County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) in 1929. He received his college education in Derry, Maynooth and Belfast and taught at various schools in and around Derry from 1950 to 1960. He is the author of many plays that have taken their place in the canon of Irish Literature, including Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964), Lovers (1967), Translations (1980), The Communication Cord (1982), and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). In 1980 he founded the touring theatre company, Field Day, with Stephen Rea.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ FSG Adult (March 16, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 114 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571117422
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571117420
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.29 x 7.68 inches
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Sense and Sensibility
5.0 out of 5 stars Magical
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Ireland under British occupation, from the point of view of its Irish speaking population, and a young British soldier who falls in love with them.
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Kate
5.0 out of 5 stars the loss of languages
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an eloquent, moving play about the love of one's native language (Irish) and the plight of lost languages (Latin, ancient Greek, and so on). Of course, it was written after the largely successful revival of the Irish language. There's your delayed "happy ending." (It's not the same, though, not by a long shot.)

the nice thing about friel's play is that he conveys the machine of colonialism with the appropriate complexity--it isn't "bad Englishman, good Irishman," but something much more complex. sometimes people like Owen, unwittingly or not, sell out their own. Sometimes others, for example the English soldier here, are part of the colonial apparatus, but not consciously or intentionally--and such people may end up being the colonized culture's greatest champions.

I liked it better than Dancing at Lughnasa. It reads well--and a lot of plays don't.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Prompt service
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not 'Very Good' but fast
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"Very good" was only Acceptable: a slightly crumpled & stained book. It arrived quickly enough, though.
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maria teresa la valle
5.0 out of 5 stars Literature at its best
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A deeply perceptive view of the colonists and the colonised. Yolland''S honesty and Hugh' S lucid and painful acknowledgement of the future of his country are sadly brilliant
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Rachel Harris
5.0 out of 5 stars The book was basically new
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I think I bought a used version of this, but either way, it looked like new to me. I'm glad with my purchase.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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One of Friel's masterpieces
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jenafk
5.0 out of 5 stars Diglossic and linguistically entertaining with romance.
Reviewed in Canada on February 22, 2022
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Mostly inspired based on true events beside the method of influencing the islanders. A subtle love square that further shows conflict between British and colonized hypothetical town.
Map and names are symbols for the changed translations and lost of original contexts.
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John McLaughlin
5.0 out of 5 stars Efficient delivery.Done
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An enjoyable text
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Alexei V. Lopez Enriquez
5.0 out of 5 stars Stockholm syndrome
Reviewed in Mexico on February 19, 2019
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A profound analysis of Ireland and England's relationship. Brian Friel's play does show the "falling to pieces" world of the ancient; the world of philosophy that gave birth to modernity ; the world of culture and the classics in which a type of man reign supreme: the humanist. In opposition to this, the "world being constructed" of the modern; the world of logics and calculus that begot a new modernity; the world of the global and the "ouvres" of the style tailored to convenience in which a type of man is dethroned for he falls short of qualities and becomes a non-entity. All in all, an excellent text to go into the colonial enterprise of England -even of the Western world- and the reception of the colonised -Ireland, the rest of the world. In the end, don't we (the non-natives English speakers) suffer from the Stockholm syndrome?
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mariarmes5
5.0 out of 5 stars Una obra maestra y comprometida de Brian Friel.
Reviewed in Spain on May 21, 2019
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Es una obra que había visto en inglés en Irlanda hace años y me interesaba volver a leerla para hacer un análisis en una asignatura de un máster literario.
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Alessia
5.0 out of 5 stars Un piccolo gioiello teatrale
Reviewed in Italy on March 24, 2018
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Una pièce teatrale profonda e toccante incentrata sul tema dell'incomunicabilità tra due mondi, quello inglese e quell irlandese, che si traduce dell'impossibilità di eaprimere i sentimenti e le paure di una vita appesa al filo sottile dell'inevitabile. Una storia di immensa sensibilità che apre una visione profonda su un periodo storico davvero importante per l'Irlanda, punto di svolta dopo il quale nulla sarà più lo stesso per loro: non la vita, non i nomi di questa terra magica e unica di cui gli inglesi hanno cercato di appropriarsi.
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