Over the past two decades, Brian Friel has become one of Ireland's best-known playwrights. Following the example of William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey, and others who were part of the flourishing literary movement at the turn of th...

Google Inc. planned to introduce a feature Wednesday that automatically translates Internet search requests and results in 12 languages, underscoring the rapidly growing company's ambitions outside the United States.The tools allow Google's users to enter search requests in their native languages and then choose to...

An Arabic language expert testified Monday that the FBI inaccurately translated some telephone intercepts of three suspected terrorism supporters, and said words that prosecutors say were code for violence have innocent alternative meanings.Translator Kamal Yunis was the first witness called by the defense in the...

The official Chinese translation of the final Harry Potter book won't be out for nearly three months, but eager fans have posted their own translations online.China's authorized publisher of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on Wednesday denounced the freelance translators and urged them to...

Israeli Harry Potter fans elbowed their way in for autographs and photos _ not with the author of the best-selling books, but with the Hebrew translator.More than 100 devotees of British writer J.K. Rowling's series about a young wizard sat and stood for an hour...

In the following essay, Zach evaluates the universal significance of Translations.

In the excerpt below, Kearney discusses Friel's exploration of the role of language in the formation of a community in Translations.

In the following essay, Kearney speculates on the political and social dimensions of language as text and subject matter in Friel's Translations and The Communication Cord.

Essay provides a discussion regarding Friel's dramatic purpose in Act 1 of "Translations."

The character of Owen changes dramatically as the plot progresses in "Translations" by Brian Friel. Owen can be seen as a traitor or helper to the Irish people and the soldiers, as a hero, a villain and as a careless deserter, or a returning saviour whose example should be followed.

Explores the references to myth and reality in Translations, by Friel. Explores how characters Hugh and Owen recognize the value of myth. Describes how Friel uses mythology, the idylls and wishes of the past to provide comfort and hope to the present.