Brian Friel

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I wanted Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney to come up, with Paul Durcan as back-up. All three came up!

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Mourners ‘privileged to be here to celebrate the life of ... a conduit of sublime thought’

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The extraordinary genius of Donal McCann on stage

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Roger Doyle: Aosdána’s newest Saoi is a champion of Irish composers

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Composer Roger Doyle elevated to Saoi by Aosdána

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