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Owen is a local man who has spent the last six years living and working in Dublin. He has come home in employment with the British army, to assist them in creating new maps of the area. Owen and Lieutenant Yolland are studying the new maps in the hedge school, trying to produce standardized English names for the local villages and towns and enter them into a Name-Book. Yolland reveals that their work has been slow and Lancey is unsatisfied with the progress. However, Yolland refuses to be
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START: OWEN: Now. Where have we got to? Yes--the point where that stream enters the sea--that tiny little beach there. George!
YOLLAND: Yes. I’m listening. WHat do you call it? Say the Irish name again?
OWEN: Bun na hAbhann.
YOLLAND: Again.
OWEN: Bun na hAbbann.
YOLLAND: Bun na hAbbann.
OWEN: That’s terrible, George.
[... …]
END: YOLLAND: But I wasn’t intimidated. ‘I’m sorry, sir,’ I said, ‘But certain tasks demand their own tempo. You cannot rename a whole country overnight.’ Your Irish air has made me bold.
Brial Friel. Translations. Faber & Faber, 1981. Pp.34-36.
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