Take a ferry to Ireland and celebrate Friel Festival

Culture lovers have been invited to take a Liverpool to Dublin ferry to help celebrate the 80th birthday of one of the country's most-celebrated playwrights.

Beginning on September 9th, the Gate/Friel festival will showcase the best works of County Tyrone-born Brian Friel.

Already the festival has toured to the Sydney Festival and is also currently appearing at the Edinburg Fringe, where audiences are being treated to three of Friel's finest theatrical masterpieces.

These include Afterplay, Faith Healer and the Yalta Game.

However, it is the festival's Dublin stint that is most likely to excite culture fans, particularly since it is to be held at the Gate Theatre, a venue with which Friel has been associated for 45 years.

The festival will run until September 19th, with all tickets costing €25.

Just last year, Queen's University in Belfast announced plans to build a new Brian Friel Theatre and Centre for Theatre Research in the Northern Ireland capital.

His works having long been recommended reading for passengers taking a leisurely ferry crossing to Ireland and keen to brush up on the country's social history.

Written by Mark Robinson

Holyhead - Dun Laoghaire

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01/04/2012 - 02/04/2012

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15/05/2012 - 23/05/2012

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27/04/2012 - 29/04/2012

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