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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What is an archive?

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

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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.

“It felt very intimate to have a view into the way in which he was thinking about things.” – Robbie Blake

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Behind the scenes

These photographs range from the early days of the collaboration to behind-the-scenes images from the filming of interviews and portraits.