Tracing the real people in Brian Friel’s ‘first great Irish play’
'Stock characters' in Philadelphia, Here I Come! were not only familiar Irish small-town figures, but inspired by real people
Anne Friel
Brian Friel: Beginnings by Kelly Matthews – The making of a highly competitive playwright
Broadway, here he comes. But first there were Ulster feiseanna, sports and his family’s literary drive
Anne Friel on her late husband playwright Brian: ‘I was crazy about him. He was everything’
Rehearsals are underway for a new production of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Gate this summer, and a new book about the playwright was published this week
Brian Friel’s art collection raises €162,300 for homeless
Works of art donated by the late playwright’s wife, Anne, sold well over estimate
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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