Making history
By: Brian Friel
Contributors: Friel, Brian
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Description: The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale, at which the alliance was defeated: with O'Neill at home in Dungannon, as a fugitive in the mountains, and finally exiled in Rome. 'Making History' was premiered at the Guidhall, Derry, in 1988.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Plays two. London: Faber, 1999.