THEA 1206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thomas Kilroy, Glenties, Lugh
14 Feb 2017
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Arguably the best-known irish playwright of his generation. Priesthood training > schoolteacher > short stories > radio > stage plays. Friel was a nationalist and very invested. Thanking the god, lugh, for a good harvest. Still observed by predominately catholic ireland: no perceived conflict of interest cultural shifts in the 1930s. Irish culture steeped in tradition but the rest of the world is opening up to change. Being an unwed mother is a taboo. Women marry young and work at home about the play. Story of the mundy family drifting apart: struggling against inevitable change. Memory play constructed by memories of michael, the son (narrator) Autobiographical: the narrator, michael, represents friel himself. Friel and his parents spent their summers with his five unmarried aunts in glenties, Ireland: ballybag is an imaginary town based on glenties, michael"s parents are not married, friel"s are. Thomas kilroy suggested the idea of a autobiographical play characters.
