8217; but it was every day speech, it was not blasphemous.* Practising Catholics believe in the power of prayer, Mass.*drinking is a large Irish cultural thing, the Irish love a drink.* The Irish love words, they love to learn new words and use them, they love the sound of words and like to put them into practice even if they are not sure as to what it means.*Joxer talks in riddles, riddles are a very Irish.* on the table in the room there is a copy of ‘The Messenger’, this is a Christian paper, read by many people in Ireland.* Culture would have been brought through in the Dublin accent and the crucifix, virgin Mary and the votive light on the wall in Juno’s room.The drinks on the table and the Messenger also show flavour of the Irish culture.*five functions of religion in the play are, social, political, spiritual, linguistic and symbolic.Social*Father Farrell is sneeringly represented by Joxer as Captain Boyle’s ever grinning ‘guardian angel’, ready to shake hands with him only when he is rich. *Mary would have socially been looked down apon by people, having an illegitimate child, having sex out of wedlock, this was seen as a great sin, and Mary would now have been labelled as a fallen woman, and no man in Ireland would want a fallen woman in 1922, in England she could have found love but she couldn't escape to England.*In Ireland the men were in charge they were the main authority but as we see in Juno and the Paycock, Juno does all the work, she works as a cleaner while Jack stays at home drinking away money that he isn't even earning. *Bentham would have been of greater social status first as a school teacher then as solicitor.socially he would have been upper-middle class were as the Boyle’s would have been lower, working class, even though only one person in the family worked, (Juno)....
