This document summarizes and analyzes Brian Friel's play "Dancing at Lughnasa". It discusses the play's depiction of an Irish family in the 1930s and how their lives were impacted by Article 41 of the Irish Constitution of 1937 which promoted traditional gender roles. The play contrasts the family's past happiness and independence before these laws with their struggles afterwards, when two sisters were forced to emigrate and the others took on roles they disliked. The analysis concludes the play was making a statement about negative changes to Irish society and family structures brought about by the conservative constitution.