Making History (play)
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{{Short description|1988 play by Brian Friel}}
{{Infobox play
| name = Making History
| image = Making_History.png
| caption = Script cover
| writer = Brian Friel
| characters = Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
Mabel Bagenal
Harry Hoveden
Hugh Roe O'Donnell
Mary Bagenal
Peter Lombard
| setting = Dungannon, Sperrin Mountains and Rome, 1590s
| premiere = {{Start date|1988|9|20}}
| place = Guildhall, Derry
| orig_lang = English
| series =
| subject = Irish nationalism, Nine Years' War, historiography
| genre = History play
| web =
}}
Making History is a 1988 play written by Irish playwright Brian Friel, which premiered at the Guildhall, Derry on 20 September 1988.{{Cite web |title=PROGRAMME: Making History, by Brian Friel (1988) |url=https://fieldday.ie/shop/theatre/making-history-brian-friel/ |access-date=29 September 2024 |website=Field Day |language=en-GB}} It focuses on the life and legacy of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led a combined Irish-Spanish alliance against the English during the Nine Years' War. The play is set before and after the Battle of Kinsale. The battle does not directly feature in the play, although it is central to the plot.
The play's other main theme is O'Neill's unexpected third marriage to the much younger Anglo-Irish Protestant Mabel Bagenal, daughter and sister of two of his most implacable enemies, which the play presents as a genuine though ill-fated love marriage.{{Cite book |last=Peacock |first=Alan J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lMPfo6bIzSQC |title=The Achievement of Brian Friel |date=1993 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-86140-349-3 |language=en}}
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Further reading
- {{Cite journal |last=Campbell |first=Patrick J. |date=1989 |title=Brian Friel's 'Making History' |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29742391 |journal=Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=291–293 |issn=0488-0196 |jstor=29742391}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Costero |first=Maria Gaviña |date=2016 |title=When Heroes Become Heroines: Brian Friel Re-Makes History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44363743 |journal=Nordic Irish Studies |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=41–57 |issn=1602-124X |jstor=44363743}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Crowley |first=Tony |date=2008 |title=Memory and Forgetting in a Time of Violence: Brian Friel's Meta-History Plays |url=https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_fac_pub/96/ |journal=Estudios Irlandeses |publisher=Scripps Faculty Publications and Research |issue=3 |pages=72–83|doi=10.24162/EI2008-2991 }}
- {{Cite book |last=Dennis |first=Mary Kate Lowrey |url=http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Dennis_uncg_9302636.pdf |title=The Irish theatre of Brian Friel: Texts and contexts |year=1992 |location=Greensboro, North Carolina}}
- {{Cite journal |last=de Souza |first=Michelle Andressa Alvarenga |date=August 2024 |title=A purposeful reshaping of a National hero: an analysis of the history and exile of Hugh O'Neill in Brian Friel's play Making History |url=https://www.academia.edu/126770116 |journal=International Journal of Arts and Social Science |volume=7 |issue=8 |pages=155–161 |issn=2581-7922}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fermino |first=Victor |date=2022-04-15 |title=The Time and Narrative of Making History: How Brian Friel Presented Hugh O' Neill as the Leopold Bloom of Historiography |journal=ABEI Journal |language=en |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=45–54 |doi=10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v24i2p45-54 |issn=2595-8127|doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Fogarty |first=Anne |date=2002 |title=The Romance of History: Renegotiating the past in Thomas Kilroy's "The O'Neill" and Brian Friel's "Making History" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25517175 |journal=Irish University Review |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=18–32 |issn=0021-1427 |jstor=25517175}}
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.nli.ie/sites/default/files/2022-12/frielb.pdf |title=Brian Friel Papers |year=2003 |editor-last=Hewson |editor-first=Helen}}
- {{Cite journal|volume=47|journal=Annals of the Faculty of Arts|publisher=Ain Shams University |last=Mazhar |first=Amal Aly |title="Revisiting or Inventing History? The Cases of Brian Friel's Making History (1988) and Mahmoud Diyab's Gate to Conquest" (1971) |date=2019 |pages=1–17 |url=https://aafu.journals.ekb.eg/article_171624_4a883d9e12c5bc89ff0cf96adce43410.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613201842/https://aafu.journals.ekb.eg/article_171624_4a883d9e12c5bc89ff0cf96adce43410.pdf |archive-date=13 June 2024 |doi=10.21608/aafu.2021.171624}}
- {{Cite news |last=McNally |first=Frank |date=27 May 2016 |title=All chieftains great and small – An Irishman's Diary about Hugh O'Neill (and some of his followers) |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/all-chieftains-great-and-small-an-irishman-s-diary-about-hugh-o-neill-and-some-of-his-followers-1.2662157 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827074125/https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/all-chieftains-great-and-small-an-irishman-s-diary-about-hugh-o-neill-and-some-of-his-followers-1.2662157 |archive-date=27 August 2024 |access-date=27 August 2024 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}
- {{Citation |last=Morgan |first=Hiram |title=O'Faoláin's Great O'Neill |date=25 February 2000 |url=https://celt.ucc.ie/OFaolain.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240917092603/https://celt.ucc.ie/OFaolain.pdf |archive-date=17 September 2024}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Morgan |first=Hiram |date=2016 |title=The Long Shadow of Seán Ó Faoláin's Great O'Neill |url=https://www.academia.edu/37774350 |journal=Dúiche Néill: Journal of the O'Neill Country Historical Society |volume=XXIII |pages=19–26}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Pelletier |first=Martine |date=1994 |title=Telling Stories and Making History: Brian Friel and Field Day |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25484619 |journal=Irish University Review |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=186–197 |issn=0021-1427 |jstor=25484619}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Richtarik |first=Marilynn |date=2019 |title=Forging a Usable Past: Brian Friel's Making History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26866629 |jstor=26866629 |journal=ELH |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=1089–1123 |doi=10.1353/elh.2019.0040 |issn=0013-8304|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Ricketts |first=Elizabeth |date=February 2020 |title=Disrupting Mythological Foundations of Identity: Hugh O'Neill, Making History, and the Troubles |url=https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ciiis |journal=Critical Inquiries into Irish Studies |volume=2 |issue=1 |doi=10.70531/2576-6414.1004|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Sloan |first=Barry |date=1994-09-01 |title='The overall thing': Brian Friel's 'making history' |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09670889408455448 |journal=Irish Studies Review |volume=2 |issue=8 |pages=12–16 |language=EN |doi=10.1080/09670889408455448|url-access=subscription }}
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