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He married Anne Morrison in 1954; they had four daughters and one son. Between 1950 and 1960, he worked as a maths teacher in the Derry primary and intermediate school system, taking leave in 1960 to pursue a career as a writer, living off his savings.
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Faith Healer is a play by Brian Friel about the life of the faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy, his wife, Grace, and stage manager, Teddy. It was first produced in 1979.
The following year, she starred as the wife of a World War II soldier in the decently reviewed Canadian film The War Bride, for which she earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress, and co-headlined the coming-of-age drama Me Without You opposite Michelle Williams.
Marries Anne Morrison. They will have four daughters and a son. 1958. His first radio play, A Sort of Freedom, is produced by BBC Radio Northern Ireland, followed shortly by his second, To...
Oct 2, 2015 · Bernard Patrick (Brian) Friel, writer: born Killyclogher, County Tyrone 9 January 1929; married 1954 Anne Morrison (four daughters, one son); died Greencastle, County Donegal, Ireland 2 October...
Oct 2, 2015 · Brian Friel, who has died aged 86, was the best-known Irish playwright of his generation. His first major play, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, was the hit of the 1964 Dublin Theatre Festival, and...
Friel returned with his wife and two daughters to Ireland from Minneapolis in June 1963, where he would remain for the next fifty years, building a worldwide career in theatre from the Northern fastnesseses of Derry and Donegal.
