Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director (died 2015)

Brian Friel

Irish dramatist, author and theatre director (1929–2015)

Brian Patrick Friel was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. He has been likened to an "Irish Chekhov" and described as "the universally accented voice…