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Tanuki

(14,918 posts) Thu Dec 31, 2015, 11:14 AM Dec 2015

RIP Irish playwright and Field Day cofounder Brian Friel

I mentioned Friel's play "Translations" in a passing way in an e-mail to one of my brothers this morning and then casually googled him. I was gobsmacked to see that he died October 2! How the hell could I not have heard about this?

I had the good fortune to see two of Friel's plays, Translations and Aristocrats at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, and Dances at Lughnasa on Broadway.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-31055473
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Actor Stephen Rea with Brian Friel when they co-founded Field Day in 1980

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Brian Friel in conversation with Seamus Heaney at the opening of the theatre named in his honour at Queen's University, Belfast in 2009





http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/02/brian-friel

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/02/brian-friel-ireland-great-theatrical-explorer

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11906444/Brian-Friel-playwright-obituary.html

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RIP Irish playwright and Field Day cofounder Brian Friel (Original Post) Tanuki Dec 2015 OP
Here's what his native Ireland has to say about Mr. Friel TexasProgresive Dec 2015 #1
Thank you. One branch of my family tree is famine Irish from a very remote part of Donegal, Tanuki Dec 2015 #2

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2. Thank you. One branch of my family tree is famine Irish from a very remote part of Donegal,
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Thu Dec 31, 2015, 02:11 PM
Dec 2015

in the Gaeltacht, and "Translations" had a great deal of resonance for me. I am bookmarking this so I can read your links more closely later. I noticed with interest the wicker coffin in the pictures of Friel's burial.

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