Editing Brian Friel (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Brian Friel and John B. Keane sculpture, Dublin.jpg|right|thumb|Statue of Friel (left) and [[John B. Keane]] in Dublin]]
The [[National Library of Ireland]] houses the 160 boxes of The Brian Friel papers,{{refn|group=note|The Brian Friel papers donated to the state in 2000 are in the National Library of Ireland Manuscript Collection, List No. 73 [MSS 37,041–37,806]}} containing notebooks, manuscripts, playbills, correspondence, contracts, unpublished manuscripts, programmes, production photos, articles, uncollected essays, and a vast collection of ephemera relating to Friel's career and creative process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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/frielb.pdf|title=Brian Friel Papers|work=National Library of Ireland}}</ref>

In 2011, an additional set of Friel's papers were made available in the National Library of Ireland.{{refn|group=note|The Brian Friel papers donated to the state in 2011 are in the National Library of Ireland Manuscript Collection, List No.  180 [MSS 42,091 – 42,093 and MSS 49,209 – 49,350]}} These additional papers consist mainly of archival materials dating between 2000 and 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/180_BrianFrielPapers_Additional.pdf|title=Brian Friel Papers (Additional)|work=National Library of Ireland}}</ref>