Brian Friel 2
Forgive the minor personal recollections, but they’re bound to come to mind. I first encountered Brian Friel in the front line of the throng that stood silently in the freezing cold as the coffins of Bloody Sunday victims emerged from a torrid requiem mass in St Mary’s Creggan. There was a silent moment of mutual recognition of the awfulness of the event. As the Guardian says in its obituary: The Freedom of the City (premiered in Dublin and subsequently directed …