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Brian Friel

Birth date: February 09, 1929

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The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose) - James Stephens, James Joyce, Oliver Goldsmith, Michael McLaverty, Desmond Hogan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Trevor, Terence de Vere White, Brian Friel, Julia O'Faolain, Benedict Kiely, George Moore, William Carleton, Daniel Corkery, Gerald Griffin, John McGahern, A

Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come! / The Freedom of the City / Living Quarters / Aristocrats / Faith Healer / Translations - Brian Friel

Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa / Fathers and Sons / Making History / Wonderful Tennessee / Molly Sweeney - Brian Friel, Christopher Murray

Das Diogenes Lesebuch irischer Erzähler - Gerd Haffmans, Frank O'Connor, James Joyce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, Lord Dunsany, George Moore, Seán O'Casey, Liam O'Flaherty, Seán Ó Faoláin, Brian Friel, John Montague, Edna O'Brien

Contemporary Irish Short Stories - Hans-Christian Oeser, Ita Daly, Anne Devlin, Brian Friel, Dermot Healy, Maeve Kelly, Seán MacMathúna, John McGahern, John Montague

Selected Stories - Brian Friel, Peter Fallon

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Bettie's Books rated it

11 years ago

text Faith Healer by Brian Friel

bookshelves: britain-ireland, autumn-2010, play-dramatisation, published-1979, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy Recommended for: Radio 3 listeners Read on September 13, 2010 BBC blurb - A magisterial study of the torments of creative genius and the healing power of love. In one of the great classic play...

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Bettie's Books rated it

12 years ago

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Made for 4 Extra. An outsider in Beannagreaghan instigates a poaching contest to ingratiate himself with town locals. Read by Adrian Dunbar.Wonderful selection, and finely read.4* Translations4* Dancing at Lughnasa3* Faith Healer4* Selected Stories

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UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it

14 years ago

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Ah......this is a nice, tightly-written play, but it's a tiny bit touchy-feely, with all the dancing and all. I get it as a play, but it's not my thing, man.

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Bettie's Books rated it

14 years ago

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BBC blurb - A magisterial study of the torments of creative genius and the healing power of love. In one of the great classic plays in the modern Irish canon, a faith healer returns to his native Ireland to a potentially terrible fate. When fortune smiles, Frances Hardy's gifts are prodigious. Other...

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carey rated it

15 years ago

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Wonderful play about the power of language in every sphere. Beautifully imagined, wonderful characters fleshed out and realistic.

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