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What is an archive?

Friel scholar Zosia Kuczyńska explores some key ideas around archives and archival access.

Works Cited

"archive, n.". OED Online. June 2021. Oxford University Press. <https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/10416?rskey=ou92Le&result=1&isAdvanced=false> [accessed June 21, 2021]

National Library of Ireland, ‘National Library of Ireland Diversity and Inclusion Policy 2018–2021’ (Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2018)

Rebecca Schneider, Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011)

Portrait: Zosia Kuczyńska

Zosia Kuczyńska is an academic and poet, specialising in the literary archives of playwright Brian Friel.

The Creative Process

Robbie Blake's blue notebook, 2–4

In these pages from Robbie Blake’s project notebooks, Robbie reflects on their experience of visiting the manuscript reading room at the National Library of Ireland to access the Brian Friel papers with Jessie Keenan and Zosia Kuczyńska.

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Mixed interview, extract 3

Zosia Kuczyńska, Jessie Keenan, and Robbie Blake talk about their experiences of accessing Friel’s archives at the National Library of Ireland and how their thinking around archives has changed over the course of the project.

“A legacy is not a thing that you set in stone, it's something that you can put in motion.” – Zosia Kuczyńska

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The body and the archive

Friel scholar Zosia Kuczyńska explores some of performance scholar Diana Taylor’s ideas around the body and the archive and their relevance to the project.

Related Manuscript

Don't anticipate the ending

Brian Friel penned this note to self whilst writing Dancing at Lughnasa (1990).