How two journalists spent two hours with a wordless Brian Friel...

The writer who spoke through his plays and disliked giving interviewsThe tributes to Brian Friel have rightly been handsome. I agree with Michael Billington that he was “the finest Irish dramatist of his generation.” His great achievement, as Fintan O’Toole wrote in the Irish Times, was “to give the confused their own nobility” and his gift was to “salvage human dignity from the wrecking ball of history.” Continue reading...