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	Irish Olympic Handball Association
		Lughnasa were favourites to finish second in the league, thus ensuring their place when the title race was blown wide open when the favourites suffered an unceremonious defeat at the hands of Pelekas last week.
		Lughnasa had the greater strength and depth as they came to the match with almost a full team of substitutes.
		Lughnasa were far better in the final stages, and this decided the game and gave them the win.
	www.olympichandball.org /news/story/100/00127.htm (678 words)

	Lughnasadh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lughnasadh (or Lughnasa; modern Irish Lúnasa; Modern Scots Gaelic, Lunasdal) is a Gaelic holiday celebrated on 1 August, during the time of the harvesting.
		There is a play by Brian Friel entitled Dancing at Lughnasa which has also been made into a 1998 movie.
		In neopaganism, Lughnasadh is one of the eight sabbats or solar festivals in the Wheel of the Year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lughnasa (431 words)

	Irish Olympic Handball Association
		At the halfway point, Lughnasa had faired the better, with 15 goals, but DCU were chomping at their heels at 13.
		The match entered the final minute, a quick tip-off for Lughnasa catches DCU sleeping, the ball is passed to Holger Beyer who under pressure puts the ball beyond reach of the DCU keeper in the bottom left corner.
		Lughnasa finally took the upper hand, so with little more than seconds left on the clock; DCU put all their effort into creating an attack through their jump shooter Ulrich Hattenberger.
	www.olympichandball.org /news/story/100/00104.htm (921 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly - Arts & Entertainment - Love, Longing and Loss
		On the surface, Dancing at Lughnasa could be easily dismissed as an Irish variation on The Glass Menagerie: Both works have countless similarities, ranging from the same narrator memory-play structure right down to symbolic objects that litter each play's landscape.
		But in Dancing at Lughnasa's war between pagan and Christian traditions, the victor actually turns out to be the new force of technology that threatens to usurp both religious traditions and the Irish way of life.
		Jayne Luke's choreography is another standout, especially when talk of the Lughnasa festival and music from the radio spur the sisters to burst into a dance full of energy and unrestrained joy.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/1998/ae_980122.cfm (875 words)

	WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ancient Celtic festival Lughnasa (pronounced loonasah), falling midway between summer solstice and autumn equinox, marks the end of summer and the beginning of the harvest.
		The 1990 play "Dancing at Lughnasa" (later a movie starring Meryl Streep) depicts the melancholy that underlies this festival, the sorrow at the end of summer, the sacrifice that comes with cutting the grain.
		In ancient times, Lughnasa was also the time of an assembly in honor of the Celtic hero-god Lugh (nasad means assembly).
	www.wiccanweb.ca /print-5358.html (191 words)

	Cloghane and Brandon Celtic Festival of Lughnasa, County Kerry, Ireland
		The Cloghane - Brandon Lughnasa Festival is a revival of an ancient pre-Christian celebration of the harvest.
		Lughnasa is one of the four great Celtic Festivals which divided the year.
		Saint Brendan's Church in the village of Cloghane is pround to be celebrating it's centenary in 2005.
	www.irishcelticfest.com (315 words)

	Dancing at Lughnasa: The Play
		Since Dancing at Lughnasa was first seen on Dublin's Abbey stage in April 1990, it has become one of the most successful and universally acclaimed plays of the decade, earning its author, director and cast the most prestigious awards in Britain, the US and Australia.
		Michael recalls the time of the Festival of Lughnasa in 1936 when he was seven years of age and lived with his mother and her four sisters in Ballybeg in Donegal.
		And while echoes of earlier Friel plays (The Gentle Island, The Enemy Within) can be found in Dancing at Lughnasa, it is the focus on women, and their "ferocious dance of pent-up sensuality" (Listener) which mark new ground in his work.
	www.anglo-iren.de /dancing/dancing_p.htm (1065 words)

	Dancing at Lughnasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Two meanings oscillate in the feast of Lughnasa: connotations of sexual awakening and transformation, and the beginning of the darker days, the 'eventide' of the year.
		On the contrary, it is more like the last orgasmic manifestation of the women's joy of life, the last fling of the spinsters - where hope and passion and the present meet - before the evening of their days sets in.
		But first this play does exactly what theatre was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall.
	www.uni-tuebingen.de /uni/nes/taitg/dancing.htm (1308 words)

	Dancing At Lughnasa: Cinephiles Movie Review
		In his recent film, Dancing At Lughnasa, Director Pat O'Connor explores the dynamism which surfaces from the relationships between the five unmarried Bundy sisters (played by Meryl Streep, Kathy Burke, Brid Brennan, Sophie Thompson and Catherine McCormack), their older brother and priest Jack (Michael Gambon) and Michael (Darrell Johnson), one of the sister's eight-year-old son.
		Set in the austere times of 1936 in a small town in Donegal, Ireland, the story depicts the heirarchy which exists among the Bundy members, placing the older sister Kate (Streep) --with all her severity of character-- at the top of the ladder of authority.
		In a climactic scene, the spirit of life is celebrated when the sisters join in the ritualistic forces of their internal music which can no longer be kept dormant.
	www.cinephiles.net /Dancing_At_Lughnasa/Film-Synopsis.html (230 words)

	lughnasa handball club
		Two nail biting penalties for the exhausted Lughnasa lads to Coolmine’s one saw the Tallaght boys dream of gold become a reality to the delight of their coach Jimmy Hanlon and under the guidance of senior coach Tom O Brannagain.
		Lughnasa boasted the meanest defense and a win over DCU whereas UCD boasted a never say die attitude that comes from overhauling a 7-goal deficit to win a semi final.
		Kilnamanagh's Lughnasa's team have proved themselves to be a very strong side, indeed Coleen Kenna, Alix Maher and goalie Elaine O’Carroll have recently been selected to play for the national U15 Olympic Handball squad.
	myhome.iolfree.ie /~lughnasa/news.htm (2601 words)

	NATURALIST'S ALMANAC \| AUGUST 1 \| LUGHNASA
		Having celebrated the beginning of the growing season around May 1, they were ready to celebrate the beginning of the harvest by August 1.
		Lughnasa rituals involved a hilltop gathering of the whole community and a feast centered on the newly ripened crop.
		The hilltop had to do with looking down on the landscape that provided the community with its food, and the main food at the original Lughnasa feasts was the local grain.
	www.naturalistsalmanac.com /0801lugh.html (324 words)

	Nevada Events - Review
		Brian Friel's touching play, "Dancing at Lughnasa," is being given a most sensitive presentation by the Nevada Repertory Company.
		In Ireland sixty years ago - the play is set in 1936 - Lughnasa, the god's feast day, was still celebrated in some parts of rural Ireland with bonfires and dancing.
		As Chrsitina and Gerry's mature son, Michael, through whose eyes and words "Dancing at Lughnasa" is recollected and told, Brian Barney is nothing less than fine.
	www.nevada-events.net /cgi-bin/cal_manager2/review180.shtml (562 words)

	Amazon.co.uk - Query Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dancing at Lughnasa (Acting Edition S.) [Paperback] by Frie...
		Dancing At Lughnasa [VHS Tape] (2001) Meryl Streep; Michael...
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	s1.amazon.co.uk /exec/varzea/search-handle-url/index=zshops-uk&field-keywords=lughnasa&bq=1 (332 words)

	Lughnasa Kerries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1999 Lughnasa's Tenacious Tyler and littermate Lughnasa's Proud Mary went BOW and WB at the Hatboro Kennel Association show.
		In 2000 Lughnasa's Stargazer was the winner of the National Futurity.
		Lughnasa is the home to many find Kerry Blue Terriers.
	www.uskbtc.com /lughnasa/future.php (52 words)

	Dancing at Lughnasa Summary & Essays - Brian Friel
		Dancing at Lughnasa, by Brian Friel, one of Ireland's most important playwrights, was first performed at the Abby Theater, in Dublin, in 1990, and garnered the 1991 Olivier Award.
		In 1998, Dancing at Lughnasa was adapted to the screen in a film directed by Pat O'Connor and starring Meryl Streep.
		Dancing at Lughnasa opens with a monologue by Michael, who introduces his nostalgic memories of the summer of 1936, when he was seven years old, and the five Mundy sisters, who raised him in rural Ireland, acquired their first wireless radio.
	www.enotes.com /dancing-lughnasa (289 words)

	Dansen op Lughnasa
		Centraal in het feest van Lughnasa, de heidense god van de oogst, staat de dans, de puurste uiting van menselijke emotie en voor de zussen de enige kans om uit het keurslijf van de familie te breken.
		"Dansen op Lughnasa" is een stuk dat in vele opzichten in het collectieve TSAT-geheugen zal gegrift blijven: vooreerst sinds vele jaren weer "thuis", in een zaal in het Godshuis.
		Hoewel de verhaallijn van "Dansen op Lughnasa" op zich niet veel voorstelde vielen er geen "gaten" in het stuk, dit dankzij een zeer deskundige regie van Chris Blondeel en het samenspel van de TSAT-acteurs die tekst en handelen perfect konden laten samenvloeien, zonder enige situationele houvast in het verhaal.
	www.tsat.be /lughnasa.html (597 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Dancing at Lughnasa'
		Brian Friel's 1992 Tony-award-winning drama Dancing at Lughnasa is, among other things, a play about memory, and its current staging by the Pacific Alliance Stage Company beautifully highlights this theme by conjuring a detailed vision of a small Irish farm in 1932--and then leaving out random scraps and fragments.
		The unmarried Mundy sisters--Maggie, Agnes, Christina, Kate and Rose--live in an Ireland that is shakily balanced between the pagan observances of its past and the strict Christianity of the present.
		The women have their own memories of having danced under the moon at Lughnasa celebrations when they were young.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.31.04/lughnasa-0414.html (679 words)

	Lughnasa Kerries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Elbrley's Lola Lughnasa ROM was out of this litter and she became my foundation bitch.
		Lughnasa's Kerrisel Carling, after an outstanding show career, became the foundation bitch for Reita and Craig Nicholson's Kerrisel Kerries.
		Her littermate Ch Lughnasa's Demon Diva (DD) produced a litter by Can./Am.
	www.uskbtc.com /lughnasa/index.php (226 words)

	Lughnasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936.
		We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing.
		Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large.
	www.lamoillecountyplayers.com /Shows/Lughnasa.htm (630 words)

	Review: Dancing at Lughnasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dancing at Lughnasa is an example of a movie that's less than the sum of its parts, and, even considering that, it's not a terrible film, just a lethargic one.
		The other three actresses, although not as prominently featured, are equally as good, and Michael Gambon offers a subdued portrayal of a man who spends most of his days trapped between childlike innocence and muddled memories.
		With the notable exception of one key scene (an exuberant dance sequence when the five sisters drop their inhibitions for the simple pleasure of a spontaneous moment), watching Dancing at Lughnasa is an uninvolving experience.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/d/dancing.html (645 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		With the Hollywood onslaught of all things green and Gaelic, "Dancing at Lughnasa" joins the likes of Ned Devine and "The Matchmaker." Lughnasa differs, however, with its dramatic attempts in presenting the slightly stable Irish parable about sisterhood and cultural identity.
		Kate's younger sisters are tempted by the thoughts of meeting men at the spring lust fest, but she scolds them, due to their grossly aging celibacy.
		With a dull, slow-moving script, "Lughnasa" remains a festival not to be celebrated.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1999/feb/02-15-99/arts/arts4.html (765 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - Dancing at Lughnasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On August first the grain harvest was anciently celebrated as Lughnasa-a festival sacred to Lugh, the god of wisdom and enlightenment.
		England retains a trace of it in their Bank Holiday on that date, and in Brian Friel's wonderful play, Dancing at Lughnasa, we see that the influence of the old gods lies just beneath the surface in even that most Catholic of lands, Ireland.
		Dancing at Lughnasa was presented by SIU Edwardsville.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/dancing_at_lughnasa.html (518 words)

	HISTORY OF LUGHNASA HANDBALL CLUB
		Like all good histories they are only written because the events that are described therein are either good or bad, but most definitely have a pretty insignificant beginning leading to a climax that exceeds your basic run-of-the-mill sexual experience.
		For those of you who do not speak Gaelic, Lughnasa (pronounced Loonasa) is an ancient Irish feast day which was celebrated in August and thanked the gods for a good summer and prayed for a good harvest to come.
		Lughnasa believed that only by setting up other senior teams in Ireland could they hope to survive.
	myhome.iolfree.ie /~lughnasa/history.htm (1274 words)

	Lughnasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Produced in London and New York as well as in Ireland, this work was widely praised for its unconventional approach to staging (the main character is played by two actors, representing his private and public selves), as well as for its "honest, lyrical, unaffected and affecting" emotions.
		La Lughnasa, long commemorated with a harmless local dance, has begun to be celebrated in more robustly heathen form, with bonfires and wild dancing in the hills beyond town.
		But the wild spirit of Lughnasa has already invaded the Mundy household, as we see when the sisters begin their own riotous dance while listening to the radio they have recently acquired: "With this too loud music," the playwright says, "this pounding beat, this shouting.
	www.thepublictheatre.org /stdygds/lughnasa.htm (3422 words)

	Dancing at Lughnasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian Friel's poetically nostalgic story of life in the Irish countryside was anchored by its narrator, a middle-aged man who would step into the action to play himself as a young boy, then step out again to deliver Friel's florid but effective monologues.
		Set in the 1930s, Lughnasa is the story of the five Mundy sisters, who live in a small cottage in the countryside outside of Ballybeg, Co. Donegal.
		Despite the fine filigree of Friel's language (adapted for the screen by playwright Frank McGuinness), the sisters are quickly revealed as barely adorned types, from the heavy-handed, matriarchal Kate (Meryl Streep) to Christina (Catherine McCormack), the impetuous romantic, still in love with the man who left her with an illegitimate son to raise.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/d/dancingat.shtml (359 words)

	Wheaton College: News: Dancing At Lughnasa: Wheaton College sets stage for Irish drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Set in the Irish countryside in 1936, Dancing at Lughnasa explores the lives of five unmarried sisters -- a school teacher, housekeeper, two knitters and an unmarried mother -- during the summer harvest festival, called Lughnasa in the Celtic language.
		It is a memory play, told as a flashback, and is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic look at a family and the challenges they face.
		Tickets for Dancing at Lughnasa are available for $5, or $2 for students and senior citizens.
	www.wheatoncollege.edu /News/pr19981027a.html (287 words)

	OCT 1803 - Dancing at Lughnasa - CR
		Told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters, the story is set against both the family's Catholic traditions and the disruption caused by the pagan harvest festival of Lughnasa.
		It is a celebration of life, of love, and loss, as the spare existence of this family is interrupted by romance and hope for themselves and for the world at large.
		Dancing at Lughnasa stars: Karen Anzoatagui as Rose, Monique Brown as Chris, Danielle Daboub as Kate, Lidsey Kolve as Agnes, Brian Morgan as Gerry, Jenna Robino as Maggie, Ryan Stevens as Michael, and Eli Thomas as Jack.
	www.lmu.edu /PAGES/7199.asp (284 words)

	Dancing at Lughnasa - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian Friel: Plays 2 : Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney
		Contemporary Irish Cinema: From the Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa (Irish Studies (Syracuse, N.Y.).)
		Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 11, Chapter 3)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /dancing_at_lughnasa.htm (81 words)

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