num_pages: 80
description: It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part.
language: English
title: Dancing at Lughnasa
titlecomplete: Dancing at Lughnasa
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Ireland, Irish Literature, Plays, School, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 4482
publisher: Faber  Faber