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The Dancers Dancing

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

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It is 1972: a group of teenagers, some from Dublin, some from Derry, are spending a month in the Irish-speaking district of Donegal, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and from the local people they are boarding with. Urban dwellers, released for the first time from the reins of parental control, they respond to the untamed landscape of river, hill, and seas, finding in it unnerving echoes of their own submerged -- and now emerging -- wildness. In this richly complex new novel, Ni Dhuibhne uses the experiences and emotions of girls on the cusp of womanhood to explore dangerous territories of sex, politics, class, and Irishness.

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Publisher
Blackstaff Press
Year
1999
ISBN-13
9780856408069
Genre
FictionYoung Adult
Topics
Coming of ageIrish identity and cultureAdolescence and sexuality

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