To remember everything is a form of madness.

- Brian Friel

The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well…

- Brian Friel

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always …

- Brian Friel

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

- Brian Friel

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

- Brian Friel

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with du…

- Brian Friel