Field Day Review 6 (2010)
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The last decade of his life was preoccupied with his editorial work on the ancient Irish laws (the so-called Brehon laws), the Seanchas Mór: See R. B. Walsh, ''John O''Donovan: The Man and the Scholar'', in Cyril McGlinchey (1861–1954), a weaver and tailor of Meentiagh glen in the Inishowen peninsula of County Donegal (the setting of Translations). Friel edited and introduced the book The Last of the Name.39 He presents the old man, as he does Hugh in the play, as a Janus figure, ...