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Friel, Brian

LC control no.n 50024152
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6056.R5
Personal name headingFriel, Brian
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Variant(s)פריל, ברײן
Associated countryIreland
Birth date1929-01-09
Death date2015-10-02
Place of birthKillyclogher (Northern Ireland)
Field of activityEnglish drama English fiction Ireland--Politics and government
AffiliationField Day Theatre Company
Ireland. Oireachtas. Seanad
Profession or occupationDramatists Authors Legislators
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inHis The saucer of larks, 1962.
Finding Ireland, 2008: ECIP data view (Brian Friel; Irish dramatist)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1929)
Telegraph WWW site, viewed Oct. 2, 2015 (Brian Friel, playwright; born at Killyclogher, Co Tyrone, on January 9 1929; died October 2 2015; wrote more than 30 plays; also published short stories; in 1980 Friel founded with Stephen Rea the Field Day Theatre Company to tour Ireland; the 1990s saw Friel continuing to produce work of note and at this point he parted company with Field Day; member of Seanad Éireann, Ireland's upper legislature, between 1987 and 1989)
Associated languageeng