"You're missing the crack, boys!" That could mean a lot of things, depending on context. But in this case, it's being shouted by a boisterous youth named Doalty in a small town in Donegal, northwestern Ireland, in the year 1833. Doalty is a character in the 1980 play Translations, by Brian Friel. And what he's saying is a thing you might equally hear outside an Irish pub today, though, true to the title of the play, he's actually talking in Irish -- it's just translated into English for the audi...
"You're missing the crack, boys!" That could mean a lot of things, depending on context. But in this case, it's being shouted by a boisterous youth named Doalty in a small town in Donegal, northwestern Ireland, in the year 1833. Doalty is a character in the 1980 play Translations, by Brian Friel. And what he's saying is a thing you might equally hear outside an Irish pub today, though, true to the title of the play, he's actually talking in Irish -- it's just translated into English for the audi...
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