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Dancing at Lughnasa

by Brian Frielliterary work

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Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in County Donegal, Ireland in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts' cottage when he was seven years old.

Adaptations (1)

Dancing at Lughnasa was adapted into a 1998 film.

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    Dancing at Lughnasa
    1998 · film · 95 min · dir. Pat O'Connor · IMDb ↗
    IMDb6.360%

    Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

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