Play written by Brian Freil put on by
Brown University Theatre during the month of November 2000, directed by Lowry Marshall.
Director's note
During the third decade of the 19th Century, the British Government conducted the Ordinance Survey of Ireland. Members of the Royal Corps of Engineers were ordered to go there to create a detailed map of every county--six inches to the mile. The ostensible purpose of the Survey was to provide the information necessary for more equitable tax assessment. Every village and hillock, inlet and lake was described in detail and given an English equivalent name. The eventual result, whether intentional or not was the near extinction of the Irish language and a clash of cultures which was to reverberate for centuries to come.