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Owen is a local man who has spent the last six
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Look where we’ve got to. We’ve come to this crossroads. Come here and look at it, man! Look at it! And we call that crossroads Tobair Vree. And why do we call it Tobair Vree? I’ll tell you why. Tobair means a well. But what does Vree mean?
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Do we scrap Tobair Vree altogether and call it - what? - The Cross? Crossroads? Or do we keep piety with a man long dead, long forgotten, his name ‘eroded’ beyond recognition, whose trivial little story nobody in the parish remembers?
Brial Friel. Translations. Faber & Faber, 1981. pp.43-44.
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