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About me
By the Bog of Cats is a play by Marina Carr, loosely based on the Greek myth Medea. Hester Swane, an Irish Traveller, who attempts to come to terms with a lifetime of abandonment in a world where all whom she has loved have discarded her.
The story is set in the '90s on the bleak, ghostly landscape of the Bog of Cats, Ireland Midland. It was a turbulent decade, the government started to ban from cutting turf and people faced unemployment. At the same time racial discrimination has increased among settled Irish and Irish travelers.