“I Control The Translation Myself”: An Interview With Celia de Fréine

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Notes

¹ A lesson in Can’t (Scotus Press, 2014).

² “On the Border of Memory: Childhood in a Divided Ireland.” New Hibernia Review 8.1 (Spring 2004): 9–20.

³ Savita Hallapanavar was refused a termination in October 2012 in Galway University Hospital, because her non-viable foetus had a heartbeat; she subsequently died from septicaemia and multiple organ failure.

⁴ Ms. Y, a teenage asylum-seeker who had been raped in her country of origin, was refused an abortion and had her baby delivered by C-section in August 2015.

⁵ An Triail. Mairéad Ní Ghráda. (An Gúm).

⁶ Two dramatized readings of Safe took place in the Maureen O’Hara Studio, the Mill Theatre on October 14 and 15, 2014; preview performances of Safe took place in Theatre@36 Parnell Square on March 5–7, 2015 as part of the International Women’s Day program; a full production will première in November 2015.

⁷ Plight: Cruachás (Arlen House, 2012).

⁸ Brian Merriman’s The Midnight Court (Arlen House, 2012).

⁹ www.facebook.com/aisteoiribulfin

¹⁰ A lesson in Can’t (Scotus Press, 2014).

¹¹ Fiacha Fola (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2004).

¹² Blood Debts (Scotus Press, 2014).

¹³ cuir amach seo dom: riddle me this (Arlen House, 2014).

¹⁴ Faoi Chabáistí is Ríonacha (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2001); Fiacha Fola (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2004); Scarecrows at Newtownards (Scotus Press, 2005).

¹⁵ imram: odyssey (Arlen House, 2010).

¹⁶ Aibítir Aoise: Alphabet of an Age (Arlen House, 2011).

¹⁷ imram: odyssey (Arlen House, 2010): 22–23.

¹⁸ Scarecrows at Newtownards (Scotus Press, 2005): 3, 50.

¹⁹ Fiacha Fola (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2004).

²⁰ Blood Debts (Scotus Press, 2014).

²¹ Blood Debts (Scotus Press, 2014).

²² Plight: Cruachás (Arlen House, 2012).

²³ Desire: Meanmarc (Arlen House, 2012).

²⁴ Temptation is inspired by the case of Ms. Y, a teenage asylum-seeker who had been raped in her country of origin, was refused an abortion and had her baby delivered by C-section in August 2015.

²⁵ Casadh was given a rehearsed reading in the Peacock Theatre in 2009 as part of the Gach Áit Eile series and at Belfast’s Cultúrlann as part of the Belfast Festival in the same year.

²⁶ Umbrella Theatre Company was founded in 2013 by playwrights and theater-makers Gerard Dalton, Michael O’Meara, Celia de Fréine, and Michael Casey with the objective of presenting new writing and innovative drama. www.facebook.com/umbrellatheatrecomapany

²⁷ Desire: Meanmarc (Arlen House, 2012).

²⁸ Faoi Chabáistí is Ríonacha (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2001): 74.

²⁹ Scarecrows at Newtownards (Scotus Press, 2005): 73.

³⁰ Mountain Language. Harold Pinter. (Faber and Faber, 1988).

³¹ Blood Debts (Scotus Press, 2014).

³² The Triggering Town. Richard Hugo. (W.W Norton and Company).

³³ Migration des Forces: The Migration of Powers. Rainer Maria Rilke (from The Complete French Poems translated by A. Poulin Jr., Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1979).

³⁴ The Book of Chameleons. José Eduardo Agualusa. (Arcadia Books Ltd., 2006).

³⁵ cuir amach seo dom: riddle me this (Arlen House, 2014).

³⁶ www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-gerard-mckee/4a/a59/654

³⁷ From Brian Merriman’s The Midnight Court translated and dramatized by Celia de Fréine (Arlen House, 2012).

³⁸ Stamen was one of the sixteen short plays produced by Umbrella Theatre Company in the National Gallery of Ireland in November 2014 as part of the gallery’s one hundred and fifty years celebration.

³⁹ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. William Shakespeare (Act 11, Scene 11).

⁴⁰ Scarecrows at Newtownards (Scotus Press, 2005): 30.

⁴¹ The Weekend. Bernard Schlink (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010).

⁴² From Plight: Cruachás (Arlen House, 2012).

⁴³ The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Bertolt Brecht (Eyre Metheun, 1979).

⁴⁴ The Threepenny Opera. Bertolt Brecht (Eyre Metheun, 1979).

⁴⁵ The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht. John Fuegi (Harper Collins Publishers, 1994).