An Triail

by Mairead Ni Ghrada

Leaving Certificate Irish Play
Published by An Gum
An Triail (The Trial) is a play written by the Irish playwright Mairead Ni Ghrada. The play is written in the Irish language. An Triail is set in the west of Ireland during the 1960s and deals with the pregnancy, and subsequent single motherhood, of a young girl. She is shunned by her family after getting pregnant by the local primary school teacher, a married man with a sick wife, and must leave her parish and move to the city. Here she is once again marginalised, first as a pregnant woman and then as a single mother.