1. Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins, Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 178.
2. Nicholas Grene, The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 195.
3. Brian Friel, Translations, Plays: One (London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996), p. 401. All future references are to this edition and will be incorporated in the text.
4. Anthony Roche, ‘Introduction’, The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 2.
5. Richard Pine, Brian Friel and Ireland’s Drama (London: Routledge, 1990), p. 13;