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Brian Friel

(1929 - ) Irish playwright. Has written a number of plays, and also translated many plays from a number of other languages. He used the theme of translations in one of his most famous works, Translations (1980). He also formed the Field Day Theatre with Stephen Rea, Tom Paulin[?], Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane[?].

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