Brian Friel by Bobbie Hanvey - a life in pictures
Photographer Bobby Hanvey had unrivalled access to Brian Friel. Here, we republish a story on a 2008 exhibition and a select gallery of some of his photographs of Friel
Brian Friel: No country needed his gift more than Ireland
Playwright’s language will ring out around the world for as long as theatre survives
The death of dramatist and storyteller Brian Friel
His words came from a place where his keen sense of language picked up the cadences of poetry
‘Glenties is the stage’: Brian Friel’s Donegal
Brian Friel knew he was in debt to Donegal, the setting for his finest works, and a place he loved – though never uncritically
Joe Dowling: ‘Brian Friel’s work changed my life’
Those of us privileged to know and love the great playwright will cherish his friendship
In his own words: Brian Friel’s ‘Irish Times’ columns
Edited excerpts from Friel’s regular newspaper column from the late 1950s and early 1960s
Brian Friel: The equal of Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter
Friel established himself as an heir to the silences of Beckett and father to the tradition of monologue drama
Brian Friel: Seven key plays
From Philadelphia Here I Come! to The Home Place, Peter Crawley selects Friel’s finest
Eileen Battersby on Friel: ‘Astonishing, a privilege’
‘Our world is better for having had Brian Friel in it and now seems a lot smaller’
Colm Tóibín on a time of theatrical miracles for Brian Friel
With the opening, in 1979 and 1980, of three extraordinary plays – ‘Aristocrats’, ‘Translations’ and ‘Faith Healer’ – Brian Friel became one of the great playwrights of his age
Meryl Streep on Brian Friel: ‘Tender dramatist, lovely man’
Playwright ‘part of the theatrical life of every theatre house’ in Ireland, Abbey director says
Rosita Boland’s three questions for Brian Friel
At the MacGill Summer School in 2008 the playwright, a famously reluctant interviewee, finally agreed to talk to ‘The Irish Times’
Obituary: Brian Friel, the best known playwright of his generation
Major plays include Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Dancing at Lughnasa
Stephen Rea's tribute to Brian Friel: a shy man and a showman
My friend’s humanity, connection with his audience and masterly writing made him unique
Thomas Kilroy: I have lost a close friend in Brian Friel. The country has lost a great dramatist
In 1969 I heard for the first time the irreverent voice, the marvellous mimicry, of the man behind the plays
Fintan O’Toole: The truth according to Brian Friel
For the late playwright the past and our images of it were slippery and treacherous. Truth lay not in public facts but in private fictions
Brian Friel’s interview with Fintan O’Toole: ‘I’m not really very good at this kind of question’
The late playwright did not like to be interviewed, and eventually he gave it up altogether. But he did give this rare interview to the drama critic of ‘In Dublin’ magazine in 1982
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