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Maire Chatach
An “open-minded, open-hearted” student at the Baile Beag hedge school in his twenties, who arrives to class with Bridget. In one of the play’s first suggestions of Irish resentment towards the British, Doalty tells Manus during class that he enjoys moving the Red Coats’ surveyor poles around to confuse them and suggests a “presence”—his means of asserting his Irish identity in the face of colonialism. Despite this resentment, Doalty ultimately tells Owen that he thought Yolland to be a decent man and insists he had nothing to do with his disappearance. He does, however, suggest that he might know the whereabouts of the Donnelly twins, who are implied to be responsible.
Doalty Quotes in Translations
The Translations quotes below are all either spoken by Doalty or refer to Doalty. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Bridget: Did you know that you start at the age of six and you have to stick at it until you're twelve at least — no matter how smart you are or how much you know.
Doalty: Who told you that yarn?
Bridget: And every child from every house has to go all day, every day, summer or winter. That's the law.
Doalty: I'll tell you something — nobody's going to go near them — they're not going to take on — law or no law.
Bridget: And everything's free in them. You pay for nothing except the books you use […] And from the very first day you go, you'll not hear one word of Irish spoken. You'll be taught to speak English and every subject will be taught through English and everyone'll end up as cute as the Buncrana people.
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Doalty Quotes in Translations
The Translations quotes below are all either spoken by Doalty or refer to Doalty. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Act 1
Quotes
Bridget: Did you know that you start at the age of six and you have to stick at it until you're twelve at least — no matter how smart you are or how much you know.
Doalty: Who told you that yarn?
Bridget: And every child from every house has to go all day, every day, summer or winter. That's the law.
Doalty: I'll tell you something — nobody's going to go near them — they're not going to take on — law or no law.
Bridget: And everything's free in them. You pay for nothing except the books you use […] And from the very first day you go, you'll not hear one word of Irish spoken. You'll be taught to speak English and every subject will be taught through English and everyone'll end up as cute as the Buncrana people.
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