Mª Yolanda Fernández-Suárez teaches EFL at the Official Language School in Burgos. She holds a BA in Classical Languages from Salamanca University and in English from León University. In 2006 she completed her PhD dissertation Las Hedge Schools Irlandesas: Naturaleza, Etapas y Representación [http://dspace.ubu.es:8080/dspace/handle/10259/66] and she is currently working on the translation into Spanish of Brian Friel’s play Translations. She has published the articles «Recent Developments in Education (2002), «The hedge school and its landscapes» (2003), “An Essential Picture in a Sketch-Book Of Ireland: The Last Hedge schools” (2006) and “The Hedge-schoolmaster, Trespasser of Socio-cultural Barriers” (2007).