The life and work of playwright Brian Friel is being celebrated in a new exhibition QUBelfast
BBC News NI Education CorrespondentAnd they did, from his first Broadway hit with Philadelphia Here I Come! to the multi-award winning Dancing at Lughnasa.
That is evident in a new exhibition of his notes and drafts for five iconic plays which opens at Queen's University's McClay Library on Saturday. Friel was born in Killyclogher, County Tyrone, in 1929 but moved to Londonderry when he was 10 and grew up there.Events in Derry when he was in the middle of writing The Freedom of the City in the early 1970s changed the play.
"The young man who needs to break free from his father and move to the United States to start a new future - that's a really universal story."
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