Blackfriars

• Blackfriars: an area of central London
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• Blackfriars Lane: the site of the Dominican Monastery where Henry VIII was granted a divorce from Catherine of Aragon → William Gorman Wills' play A Royal Divorce (concerning Napoleon Bonaparte's divorce from Joséphine) was frequently performed in Dublin and crops up repeatedly in FW

• Blackfriars: a Catholic religious order more commonly known as the Dominicans, but in England and some other countries referred to as Blackfriars on account of the black "cappa" or cloak they wear. Carmelites are known as "Whitefriars" for a similar reason