The Brian Friel Papers
The National Library of Ireland houses the 160 boxes of The Brian Friel papers (Manuscript Collection List No. 73, given as a gift to the state in December 2000), containing notebooks, manuscripts, playbills, correspondence, contracts, unpublished manuscripts, programmes, production photos, articles, uncollected essays, and a vast collection of ephemera relating to Friel's career and creative process from 1959 through 2000. It does not contain his Irish Press articles, which can be found in the Dublin and Belfast newspaper libraries.
His papers were valued at n1.2 million.
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