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Seamus Heaney

4/2/2023

Staging History to Make History: Theater and the Road to the Good Friday Agreement

by Marilynn Richtarik

Brian Friel's play "Making History" wasn't faithful to the facts of the life of Hugh O'Neill, a 16th century chieftain who had symbolized Irish resistance to colonization. But, as an influential artist, Friel purposefully substituted myths of cultural hybridity for myths of nationalism to make the negotiation of peace palatable to his friends in politics.

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Seamus Heaney

Staging History to Make History: Theater and the Road to the Good Friday Agreement

by Marilynn Richtarik