21.6 x 13.8 cm. xx, 267 pp. 1883 Ulster Editions and Monoographs Series (ISSN 0954-3392) volume 4
The reception of Brian Friel’s recent Dancing at Lughnasa confirmed his status as Ireland’s leading dramatist. The body of work that he produced is outstanding in its breadth of sympathy and interest, its dramaturgical invention and its wide cultural and intellectual purview. At one level, it may be seen as a continuous examination of Irish culture and politics, committed and analytical, but not sectionally propagandist.
