The Precious Memories

Dancing at Lughnasa, by Pat O'Connor, is set in 1998 and based on Brian Friel's play which is about the playwright's childhood memories. This film is an Irish drama. It's also considered to be one of the best films ever set in Ireland. The main characters are Michael Mundy Evans (a reflecting the author narrator  who is also the narrator), Kate Mundy, Rose Mundy, Beggie Mundy, Father Jack, Agnes Mundy and Gerry Evans.
The story of 'Dancing at Lughnasa', written in close 1990, doesn't tell about facts a lot get into much detail about the time in which it was set (the coming of the Industrial Revolution to Ireland when Irish society began getting poorer and poorer, trying to survive), but more rather reflects depicts the atmosphere of faraway Friel's distant childhood memories. Despite a lot of difficulties and terrible events, this story appears as a window to calming and warming the author's soul recollections memories. This story is about the a certain period of in Friel's life, which later will will later change forever.
The story begins in early August; a measured life in work, at the start of the working season . Kate works as a school teacher to support her family; Agnes and Rose knit mittens trying to help Kate. Uncle Jack comes back home from Uganda where he has worked been working as a missionary for 25 years. Suddenly, the illegal illegitimate father of Michael, Gerry, comes arrives. Christie is charmed with him again as during his earlier arrivals once a year or so. Rose falls in love with Danny Bradley, a light-minded married man with 3 children who consequently later takes her for sailing in on Lough Anna and then forcibly compels forces her to go to festival on attend the Lughnasa celebrations/festivities with him. Later, by midnight, Jack saves his sister; she would like to think of Mr Bradley no more. Gradually it gets becomes clear that Jack can't work as a priest because of being mentally ill his mental illness. Kate is expelled from school, Rose and Agnes's mittens are not in need needed anymore because a new factory has been opened nearby. The most joyous and inspiring moment in the play is the dancing scene as the radio repaired by Gerry begins to work. But everything goes away, and returning remembering to their family's funds financial problems, Rose and Agnes decide to leave home forever. As it becomes known much later, they went to lived in the slums of London, in poverty, and then later died there.
The acting was excellent: Meryl Streep played Kate, and Michael Gambon, whose role also was played Dumbldore in one of the series of films about Harry Potter's adventures, played Uncle Jack. Moving music was composed by Bill Whelan.
'Dancing at Lughnasa' is a very good film for the whole family which broadens history historical views and the ability to sympathize with people.