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Fionnuala O Connor: Brian Friel is worth a big slice of anyone's time

Brian Friel, who died in 2015, in the auditorium at Belfast's Grand Opera House before the the final performance of his play, The Homeplace. Photo: Brian Morrison/PA Wire
Fionnuala O Connor
‘Treated success and failure alike'? A devoted and learned minder of his work was surely wrong in that. One of the facets of him that leap out of the marvellous documentary ‘Brian Friel, Shy Man Show[...]

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