Emphasis Preaching Journal

In his play Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel tells the story of five unmarried sisters in the poor Irish village of Bellybag. Their simple pleasures are few: an occasional cigarette, some fresh bilberries, and some weak music barely audible through the static of an old broken down radio. Their lives are hard but they still manage to find some joy. In the most uplifting scene of the play, the sisters hear an old Irish tune come through the radio and they dance, rejoicing in the small pleasures and faint hopes they still enjoy.