Brian Friel
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Brian Patrick Friel (9 January 1929 – October 2nd, 2015) was an Irish dramatist, short story writer, and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company.
He had been dubbed one of the best living English-language dramatists in the world.
He has been likened to "Irish Chekhov" and described as "the universally accented voice of Ireland."
His performances have been compared favorably to those of contemporaries, including Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, and Tennessee Williams. Here I Come! Faith Healer, Friel had 24 plays published in less than a half-century.
He was appointed to Saoi of Aosdána, the honorary position.
Throughout this period, his plays were frequently seen on Broadway in New York City, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Friel co-founded Field Day Theatre Company in 1980, and his play Translations was the company's first production.
Friel collaborated with Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate, on Field Day.
Heaney and Friel met for the first time after Friel wrote to the young poet shortly after it was announced that his book Death of a Naturalist was published. Friel was a member of the American Academy of Letters, the British Royal Society of Literature, and the Irish Academy of Letters.
He was appointed to Seanad Éireann in 1987 and served until 1989.
Dancing at Lughnasa revived Friel's career in later years, winning Tony Awards (including Best Play), the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.
It was also turned into a film starring Meryl Steffiep and Frank McGuinness, with script by Frank McGuinness.
Personal life
Friel was born in 1929 at Knockmoyle, before the family relocated to Killyclogher, County Tyrone, just south of Omagh. The exact date and name of his father are uncertain. Brian Patrick 'Friel's birth name appears on the parish register, as well as a date of 9 January.' Bernard Patrick Friel was given his birth date as 10 January, where he was reportedly on the grounds that "Brian" was not recognized by the registrar as an acceptable forename). Brian Friel was simply known as Brian Friel in life, and his birthday was on January 9th. Patrick Friel, a primary school teacher and later a councillor on Londonderry Corporation, is the local council in Derry. Mary (née McLoone), the postmistress of Glenties, County Donegal, was Friel's mother. When Friel was ten years old, the family moved to Derry. He attended St Columb's College (the same school attended by Seamus Heaney, John Hume, Seamus Deane, Phil Coulter, Eamonn McCann, and Paul Brady)).
Friel obtained his B.A. Maynooth, 1946-1948), and Belfast, St Patrick's College, 1957–50. In 1954, he married Anne Morrison, with whom he had four children and one son. He worked as a maths instructor in Derry's primary and middle school system between 1950 and 1960, and then resigned in 1960 to pursue a life as a writer, living off his savings. The Friels went from Derry to Muff, County Donegal, before settling outside Greencastle, County Donegal, in the late 1960s.
Friel was a supporter of Irish nationalism and a Nationalist Party member.
Friel died in Greencastle, County Donegal, on October 2nd, and is buried in the cemetery in Glenties, Co. Donegal, after a long illness. He was survived by his wife Anne and his children Mary, Judy, Sally and David. Patricia, Patricia's mother, predeceased him.
Career
In or near the fictional town of "Ballybeg" (from the Irish Baile Beag, which means "Small Town"), a common setting for Friel's performances is located. There are fourteen such plays on the stage: Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Crystal and Fox, The Gentle Island, The Living Quarters, Faith Healer, Aristocrats, Translations, The Communication Cord, Dancing at Lughnasa, Tennessee Molly Sweeney, Molly Sweeney, Give Me Your Answer Do! The Home Place and Faith Healer are two of the town's seminal performances, while the town's seminal event of Faith Healer takes place. These plays represent an extended history of this fictional community, with Translations and The Home Place set in the nineteenth century and Dancing at Lughna in the 1930s. Here I Come! With other actors set in "the present" and written throughout the playwright's career from the early 1960s to late 1990s, the audience is introduced to rural Irish life, from Garees' lonely and backward town in 1964 Philadelphia. Doing Your Answer Does Molly Sweeney (1994), a wealthy and multicultural small town. (1997), where the characters have health clubs, ethnic restaurants, and daily flights to the world's major cities.