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Tue 09 Sep 2009'Many more years, Brian'
The Abbey’s 80th birthday tribute to Brian Friel was a celebration of his work and life that featured words, plays and above all music
HAD THE PHOTOGRAPHER engineered it? There was Brian Friel sitting upstairs at the Abbey chatting with an eccentrically hatted Jeremy Irons (looking very A Month in the Country, or like a Beckett character). All around them milled theatre folk, there for the Abbey’s birthday tribute night for Friel, MC-d by actor (and Irons’s wife) Sinead Cusack. On second thoughts, surely no one could set those two gentlemen up for a scene like that.
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