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1. • • In the fine title story, a thirtyish unmarried "girl," who lives with her crippled father, pays her weekly obeisance to dreams that once had the possibility of fulfillment — as she bicycles to a roadside dance hall, the "Ballroom of Romance," a burst of lights and sedate jazz, a Saturday night chimera.
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   What time period does the ballroom of romance take place?

   • Although the main action of William Trevor 's "The Ballroom of Romance" takes place in a single evening in 1971, the story's time span is much broader. The temporal range is obvious from the opening of the story, where the salient features of the life of Bridie, the 36-year-old protagonist, are economically recounted.

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   Where was the ballroom of romance filmed?

   • The Ballroom of Romance was based on a short story by William Trevor set in County Leitrim, Ireland. The film was shot on location in Ballycroy, County Mayo as by 1982 the ballroom which William Trevor had originally written about had been modernized and no longer resembled a dance hall typical of 1950s Ireland.

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   Is the ballroom of romance based on a true story?

   • And although it is arguably Trevor's best-known Irish story, "The Ballroom of Romance" differs in locale and personnel from many of his other Irish stories, a large number of which are set in and around the provincial towns in which the author spent his childhood and youth. Nonetheless, "The Ballroom of Romance" is related thematically to them.

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   Why is 'the ballroom of romance' so famous in Ireland?

   • ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ is a very famous story but particularly so in Ireland and perhaps this is because – as well as the brilliant cut-crystal quality that it has – it is a story about Ireland. A story that you might – if you were prone to exaggeration – say was about the sex lives of an entire nation at a certain point in time.

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   Is the ballroom of romance a classic?

   • The film is considered a classic. Bob Geldof described The Ballroom of Romance as his favourite Irish film, "full of that empty, sad despair and hopelessness that is in the character, as evidenced in drink, music, Catholicism, desperate pursuit of ‘ the craic ’ and dangerously overwrought politics."

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   Where did 'ballroom of romance' come from?

   • Almost all of the production personnel involved in the BBC/RTÉ co-production ‘Ballroom of Romance’ came from the BBC, along with Producer Kenith Trodd. The banner seen at the dance, "Happy Homes for Ireland and for God," was taken from a real banner that O'Connor remembered from his youth.

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   The historical background of "The Ballroom of Romance" gives the story additional impetus and resonance by providing an enlarged sense of missed steps, of marking time and putting the best foot forward.

   • Author: William Trevor

   • Publish Year: 1972

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   The Ballroom of Romance is a British-Irish 1982 television film directed by Pat O'Connor based on a short story by William Trevor. [1] [2] It won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama.

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   Oct 3, 2013 · William Trevor’s ‘The Ballroom of Romance’. INTERVIEWER: You have never really created a hero. Why is that? TREVOR: Because I find them dull. Heroes don’t really belong in short stories. As Frank O’Connor said, ‘Short stories are about little people,’ and I agree.

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    The Ballroom of Romance. story by Trevor. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In William Trevor.