Translations - E by David Doherty https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay Create thematic categories, then sort your quotes into the columns. en-us 2018-09-26 16:24:49 UTC 2018-10-02 00:59:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Directions ddoherty2 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287766596 1. Create (or add to) a thematic category column.
2. Add quotes to the thematic category column.
3. Choose three of the quotes and provide your own commentary on their significance.]]> 2018-10-01 17:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287766596 Critical Analysis ddoherty2 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287767031 Consider this analysis: "...the play is an uncompromising reminder that it is Irish, and not English people, who have the power to decide which language is spoken in Ireland. The very fact that audiences are to imagine the play being enacted in Irish is not just a clever double-take, but a conceit which is savagely satiric of those modern audiences which lack proficiency in their own language. If they laugh at the Englishman’s halting attempts to express himself to the villagers, they are also in effect laughing at themselves" (Kiberd 616).]]> 2018-10-01 17:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287767031 "it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language ... we must never cease renewing this images; because, once we do, we fossilize" (Friel 88). ddoherty2 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287767654 2018-10-01 17:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287767654 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287771993 "Indeed - English, I suggested, couldn't really express us. And again to his credit he acquiesced to my logic" (Friel 23). ]]> 2018-10-01 17:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287771993 "We must learn where we live. We must learn to make them our own. We must make them our new home" - Hugh (88). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772433 At first the characters are reluctant to give up Irish for English, but in the end of the play they decide they have to learn English.]]> 2018-10-01 17:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772433 Manus: https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772526 "I just shouted something stupid - something like, 'You're a bastard, Yolland.' If I'd even said it in English . . . 'cos he kept saying 'Sorry-sorry?' The wrong gesture in the wrong language." (70).

]]> 2018-10-01 17:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772526 “Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes; our only method of replying to…inevitabilities”(51) https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772692 2018-10-01 17:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772692 Maire: "We should all learn to speak English . That's what I say. That's what Dan O'Connell said last month in Ennis. He said the sooner we learn English the better" (Friel 24). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772909 2018-10-01 17:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772909 “You’ll find, sir, that certain cultures expend on their vocabularies and syntax acquisitive energies and ostentatious entirely lacking in their material lives. I suppose you could call us a spiritual people”(50). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772933 2018-10-01 17:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772933 "A - that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language"/"B-we must never cease renewing those images; because once we do, we fossilise"(88). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772969 2018-10-01 17:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287772969 “I was trying to explain a few minutes ago how remarkable a few minutes ago how remarkable a community this is. To meet people like yourself and Jimmy Jack who actually converse in Greek and Latin”(50). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287773402 2018-10-01 17:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287773402 “...and we’re standardizing those names as accurate and as sensitively as we can.// “Something is being eroded”(52-53). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287773564 2018-10-01 17:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287773564 "That's the height of my Latin. Fit me better if I had even that much English" (8). ahoward44 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287773577 2018-10-01 17:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287773577 "'The old language is a barrier to modern progress.' He said that last month. And he's right. I don't want Greek. I don't want Latin. I want English" (25). sbuchanan10 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287773915 2018-10-01 17:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287773915 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287774596 "Indeed - English, I suggested, couldn't really express us. And again to his credit he acquiesced to my logic" (Friel 23). ]]> 2018-10-01 17:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287774596 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287774880 "I am a barbarian in this place because I am not understood by anyone" (Friel 85)]]> 2018-10-01 17:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287774880 "My friend, confusion is not an ignoble condition" - Hugh (89). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287774958 Some of the English look down upon the Irish, such as Captain Lancey (who speaks very slowly which is condescending) because they don't know English. However, Hugh argues that they shouldn't have to feel bad because they don't know English. They are smart people, they just don't know the language.]]> 2018-10-01 17:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287774958 "When my grandfather was boy they did the same thing...and after all the trouble you went to, mapping the place and thinking up new names for it" (Friel 83). skastor https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775214 The destruction of language is a cycle that goes on forever and ever. This destruction of language isn't anything new, as even this change in language will change after time again and again.]]> 2018-10-01 17:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775214 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775233 "What's 'incorrect' about the place-names we have here" (Friel 36)]]> 2018-10-01 17:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775233 “I was trying to explain a few minutes ago how remarkable a few minutes ago how remarkable a community this is. To meet people like yourself and Jimmy Jack who actually converse in Greek and Latin”(50). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775779 2018-10-01 17:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775779 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775897 "I've damned little to defend but he'll not put me out without a fight. And there'll be others who think the same as me" (Friel 83-84)]]> 2018-10-01 17:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775897 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775961  "Commencing twenty-four hours from now we will shoot all livestock in Ballybeg." (P80) "If by then the lieutenant hasn't been found, we will proceed until a complete clearance is made of this entire section." (P81) ]]> 2018-10-01 17:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287775961 "If that doesn't bear results...leveling of every abode in the following selected areas -" (80). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776070 2018-10-01 17:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776070 "'My job is to translate the quaint, archaic tongue you people persist in speaking into the King's good English'" (Friel 30). skastor https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776159 Language has become vital not only as a method of communication, but it has also become something economical. More jobs have been opened up, more barter has been created, and more opportunity overall has been constructed from language.]]> 2018-10-01 17:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776159 "(He clears his throat. He speaks as if he were addressing children - a shade too loudly and enunciating excessively)" --> "It might be better to assume they understand you - " (32-33) sbuchanan10 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776243 2018-10-01 17:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776243 "I've dammed little to defend but he'll not put me out without a fight." (83) https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776339 2018-10-01 17:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776339 "Do your job. Translate" (80) https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776571 2018-10-01 17:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776571 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776644 "We should all be learning English. That's what my mother says. That's what I say...The sooner we all learn to speak English the better" (24). ]]> 2018-10-01 17:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776644 "I was just thinking to myself last night: if you had the choosing between Athene and Artemis and Helen of Troy- all three of them Zeus's girls- imagine three powerful-looking daughters like that all in the one parish of Athens!" (Friel 5). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776930 Jimmy is clearly well-versed in Greek mythology. This, along with the fact that he is fluent in Greek, show that he is highly educated, contradictory to the stereotype that the Irish are intellectually inferior to the British. ]]> 2018-10-01 17:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776930 "Beginning this time tomorrow they'll kill every animal in Baile Beag - unless they are told where George is" (80). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776985 2018-10-01 17:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287776985 "My job is to translate the quaint, archaic tongue you people persist in speaking into the King's good English"(30) https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287777974 2018-10-01 17:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287777974 "Whats 'incorrect' about the place names we have here?" (36) sbuchanan10 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287778978 2018-10-01 17:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287778978 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287779073 The half-dozen times I met him I didn't know a word he said to me; but he seemed a right enough sort..." (Friel 76)]]> 2018-10-01 17:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287779073 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287779468 "Yolland is pouring a drink. Easy with that stuff - it'll hit you suddenly."

Yolland: "I like it."

(43)]]> 2018-10-01 17:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287779468 "Do they speak any English, Roland?" "Don't worry. I'll translate." "I see. (He clears his throat. He speaks as if he were addressing children)" "It might be better if you assume they understand you" (32-33). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287780320 2018-10-01 17:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287780320 "Yet in truth she discovered that a race was springing from Trojan blood to overthrow some day these Tyrian towers - a people kings of broad realms and proud in war who would come forth for Lybia's downfall" (91). ahoward44 https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287781838 2018-10-01 17:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287781838 "What's 'incorrect' about the place-names we have here?" "Nothing at all. They're just going to be standardized" "When there's ambiguity, they'll be Anglicized" (36). https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287782109 2018-10-01 18:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ddoherty2/cm5w8o6rsuay/wish/287782109