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Irish literature

  • Jonathan Swift
    In Irish literature: The 1960s and beyond

    …produced Field Day’s landmark play Translations; it is set in mid-19th-century Donegal, where British Ordnance Survey engineers are remapping and translating the Irish landscape into English. The play’s performance was a key moment in the transformation of Irish writing into a self-consciously postcolonial national literature.

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