Background
Friel, Brian was born on January 9, 1929 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Son of Patrick and Christina (MacLoone) Friel.
( Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with ...)
Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and his humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O'Donnell has accepted his aunt's invitation to come to Philadelphia. Now, on the eve of his departure, he is not happy to be leaving Ballybeg. With this play Brian Friel made his reputation and it is now an acknowledged classic of modern drama.
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(Lauded for his rhythmical and supple writing, charged wit...)
Lauded for his rhythmical and supple writing, charged with despair and enchantment, Brian Friel's play Faith Healer was first produced at the Longacre Theatre, New York, in 1979 and revived by the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2001.
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( The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-s...)
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.
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Friel, Brian was born on January 9, 1929 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Son of Patrick and Christina (MacLoone) Friel.
Student, St. Columb's College, 1946. Bachelor, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland, 1948. Postgraduate, St. Joseph's Teachers Training College, Belfast, Ireland, 1950.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Dominican College, Chicago. Doctor of Letters (honorary), National University Ireland. Doctor of Letters (honorary), New University Ulster.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Georgetown University.
Teacher various schools, Derry City, Northern Ireland, 1950-1960. Freelance writer, since 1960. With Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, 1963.
Co-founder Field Day Theatre Company, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1980.
( Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with ...)
(Lauded for his rhythmical and supple writing, charged wit...)
( The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-s...)
Member Irish Senate, 1987. Fellow Royal Society Literature. Member National Association Irish Artists, American Academy Arts and Letters.
Married Anne Morrison, December 27, 1955. Children: Paddy, Mary, Judy, Sally, David.
