The Time and Narrative of Making History: How Brian Friel Presented Hugh O’ Neill as the Leopold Bloom of Historiography

Abstract

This paper presents Brian Friel’s Making History as a dialogical piece that illustrates the historiographical turn of the twentieth century as something close to the narrative that is also present in James Joyce’s Ulysses: that is, the polyphony of multiple heroes having their own voices, each with their own importance, and without compromising the author’s identity in their own work.

Keywords

• james joyce
• brian friel
• ulysses
• historiography
• history
• narrative