High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brian Friel is an Irish dramatist, theatre director and author. He is best known for his plays Philadelphia Here I Come! and Dancing at Lughnasa. Friel was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, the son of Patrick "Paddy" Friel. His father was a primary school teacher and later a councillor on Londonderry Corporation, the local city council in Derry. Friel's mother, Mary McLoone, was postmistress of Glenties, County Donegal. He attended St Columb's College in Derry, received his B. A. from St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, and qualified as a teacher at St. Joseph's Training College in Belfast, 1949-50. He married Anne Morrison in 1954, with whom he has four daughters and one son; they remain married. 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 writer, living off his savings. In 1966, the Friels moved from 13 Malborough Street, Derry to Muff, County Donegal, eventually settling outside Greencastle, County Donegal.

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