Brian Friel one year on: A critical overview

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The geographic location of Donegal, where Friel and his wife Anne raised their children only a few miles from the northern town of Derry is significant. Friel was able to straddle the partitioned border of two worlds: Northern and Southern Ireland. It is thus not surprising that identity in Friel’s drama is often bifurcated and, as Anthony Roche had argued, “a sense of doubleness” is a hallmark of much of his writing. Photograph: courtesy of the Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives, JJ Burns Library, Boston College

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