About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Brian Friel, Victor Sloan, Don Mullan, Omid Djalili, Kate Hoey, Michelle Gildernew, Martin O'Hagan, Kevin Cahill, Mark Durkan, Gregory Campbell, Stephen Snoddy, Susan Philipsz, Steve Nimmons, Gerald Dawe, David Holmes, Eileen Bell, Brian Keenan, Alban Maginness, David J. Templeton, List of alumni of the University of Ulster, Cecilia Keaveney, Alex Wood, Jane Morrice, Robert Coulter, John Dallat, Terri Scott, Anne Devlin, George Henry Smyth, Sean Farren, Dominic Bradley, Christine Borland, Brian O Domhnaill, Basil McCrea, Willie Doherty, Rebecca Ndjoze-Ojo, Tom Kelly, Michael Alcorn, Caroline St John-Brooks, Pat Loughrey, John Kindness, Jonathan Craig, Paul Givan, Aodan Mac Poilin, Alison Kitson, Brendan Hamill, Mary McIntyre, Ian Wilson, Aidan Browne, Christina McKenna, Neil Brittain, Katie Larmour, Brian Philip Davis, Laura Patterson, Ross Wilson, Mary Gormley, Brian Irvine, Thomas Niblock, Kathleen Ferguson, Kim L. O'Neill. Excerpt: Brian Friel (born 9 January 1929) is an Irish dramatist, author and director of the Field Day Theatre Company. He is considered to be the greatest living English-language dramatist, hailed by the English-speaking world as an "Irish Chekhov" and "the universally accented voice of Ireland." Friel is best known for plays such as Philadelphia Here I Come! and Dancing at Lughnasa but has written more than thirty plays in a six-decade spanning career that has seen him elected Saoi of Aosdana, following in the footsteps of Samuel Beckett. His plays have been a regular feature on Broadway throughout this time. Philadelphia, Here I Come! was turned into a film in 1975, starring Donal McCann, directed by John Quested, screenplay by Brian Friel. In 1980 Friel co-founded Field Day Theatre Company and his play Translations was the company's first production. Neil Jordan completed a screenplay for a...
