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Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Brendan Francis Behan (1923-1964) Irish author noted for his powerful political views and earthy satire. While not in jail or in pubs, Behan worked in odd jobs and wrote plays and stories that colorfully depicted the life of the ordinary working men. Several of his books were banned in Ireland. Behan spent most of the years from 1939 to 1946 in English and Irish penal institutions on political charges. However, his writings are lively, full of humor and do not show much signs of anger or polemical fervour. "... it was not really the length of sentence that worried me - for I had always believed that if a fellow went into the I.R.A. at all he should be prepared to throw the handle after the hatchet, die dog or shite the licence - but that I'd sooner be with Charlie and Ginger and Browny in Borstal than with my own comrades and countrymen any place else. It seemed a bit disloyal to me, that I should prefer to be with boys from English cities than with my own countrymen and comrades from Ireland's hills and glens." (from Borstal Boy Brendan Behan was born in Dublin and lived his childhood in the slums of the city. In spite of the surroundings, he did not become an unlettered slum lad, but had an alert and incisive mind. His family on both sides was traditionally anti-British. At Behan's birth, his father was in a British compound because of involvement in the Irish uprising of 1916-1922. Behan attended Catholic schools. He also owed much of his education to his family, well-read, and of strong Republican sympathies. Behan left school at the age of 14 and worked as a house painter. From the age of nine he had served in a youth organization connected with the IRA, and in the late 1930s he was IRA's messenger boy.

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Brendan Behan (1923-1964) ORIGINAL WORK 'Loneliness', 'Spring Coming', 'Homage', translations of Behan's poems in Irish by Kevin Faller are published in Poetry Ireland Review 1: (Spring 1981) 23-24. 'Loneliness', a translation by Oliver Snoddy of Behan's poem in Irish 'Uaigneas' is published in Poems by Colm O' Neill, Conleth Ellis, James O' Rourke, Oliver Snoddy, The Nationalist and Leinster Times Ltd., Carlow (1961) 38. The translation 'Repentance' by Ulick O' Connor is published in Murray, Patrick (ed.), The Deer's Cry A Treasury of Irish Religious Verse, Four Courts Press (1986) 247. 'Uaigneas / Loneliness' translated by the author are published in Williams, Jonathan (ed.), Between the Lines: Poems on the Dart, The Lilliput Press, Dublin (1994) 16-17. Kearney, Colbert, The Writings of B. Behan , St. Martin's Press, New York (1977), ch. 3. A translation of the poem 'Uaigneas / Loneliness' by the author is published in Poems and a Play in Irish , Gallery Books (1989) 22. Wolfhound Press, (1991) 98-109. Masson, Jean-Yves (ed.)

3. Famous Irish Lives - Brendan Behan BRENDAN BEHAN 19231964 PLAYWRIGHT AND AUTHOR. Behan was born in Dublinon 9 February 1923. His father was a house painter who had http://www.irelandseye.com/irish/people/famous/behan.shtm

// Where you place this code is where the random proverb will be displayed. document.write(topbanads[rand(ideas.length)]) Search the site: powered by FreeFind Search the Internet // Where you place this code is where the random proverb will be displayed. document.write(ideas[rand(ideas.length)]) BRENDAN BEHAN PLAYWRIGHT AND AUTHOR Behan was born in Dublin on 9 February 1923. His father was a house painter who had been imprisoned as a republican towards the end of the Civil War, and from an early age Behan was steeped in Irish history and patriotic ballads; however, there was also a strong literary and cultural atmosphere in his home. The United Irishman . When the IRA launched a bombing campaign in England in 1939, Behan was trained in explosives, but was arrested the day he landed in Liverpool. In February 1940 he was sentenced to three years' Borstal detention. He spent two years in a Borstal in Suffolk, making good use of its excellent library. In 1942, back in Dublin, Behan fired at a detective during an IRA parade and was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. Again he broadened his education, becoming a fluent Irish speaker. During his first months in Mountjoy prison, Sean O Faolain published Behan's description of his Borstal experiences in The Bell Behan was released in 1946 as part of a general amnesty and returned to painting. He would serve other prison terms, either for republican activity or as a result of his drinking, but none of such length. For some years Behan concentrated on writing verse in Irish. He lived in Paris for a time before returning in 1950 to Dublin, where he cultivated his reputation as one of the more rambunctious figures in the city's literary circles.

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The Database for Playwrights and their Plays To view plays in print or purchase new / secondhand books by BEHAN Brendan please click on one of the following bookstores who support this site Internet Theatre Bookshop Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Amazon.ca BEHAN Brendan Nationality : email address website Title : Big House, The First Produced : 1958 Dublin First Published : 1978 in "The Complete Plays", Eyre Methuen, London Genre : Male : Female : Other : Notes : broadcast 1957 Synopsis : Title : Borstal Boy First Produced : First Published : Genre : Male : Female : Other : Notes : Synopsis : Title : Garden Party, The First Produced : First Published : 1978 in "The Complete Plays", Eyre Methuen, London Genre : Comedy Male : Female : Other : Notes : Synopsis : Title : Hostage, The First Produced : 1958 London First Published : 1958 Methuen, London Genre : Play with Music Male : Female : Other : Notes : aka An Gaill (Dublin, 1958), with Joan Littlewood Synopsis : a young Cockney soldier is taken hostage for an IRA man who is due to be hanged in Belfast Title : Moving Out First Produced : First Published : 1978 in "The Complete Plays", Eyre Methuen, London

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12. Brendan Behan Brendan Behan The Brendan Behan holding is a twelvepage manuscript, The CourteousBorstal, in the author's hand with many corrections and revisions. http://www.siu.edu/~ireland/bb.htm

Brendan Behan The Brendan Behan holding is a twelve-page manuscript, "The Courteous Borstal," in the author's hand with many corrections and revisions. This constitutes a series of what are, most likely, early notes for Behan's Borstal Boy. Return to Other Irish Collections in Special Collections

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HOME ACTORS ACTRESSES FORUM ... A BONE Brendan Behan Biography: Born 1923 in Dublin, Ireland, he joined the IRA as a teenager, and at sixteen years old he was sentenced to three years in prison for attempting to blow up a shipyard in Liverpool. Many more years were spent in jail for terrorist activities including attempted murder. He was deported in 1952, and his first play was published shortly after his deportation. He wrote his autobiography, Borstol Boy , in 1958. Died 1964. After the Wake Paperback - 160 pages (October 1998) Hardcover (December 1983) Borstal Boy "Autobiographical work by Brendan Behan, published in 1958. The book portrays the author's early rebelliousness, his involvement with the Irish Republican cause, and his subsequent incarceration for two years in an English Borstal, or reformatory, at age 16. Interspersed with tales of brutality are anecdotes about dramatic and musical pastimes and Behan's gardening and handicraft activities. The book is notable for capturing the immediacy of conversation among the inmates." ( The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature , April 1, 1995) The Complete Plays Paperback (August 1987) The King of Ireland's Son "Grades 3-5, younger for reading aloud. In this folktale from Brendan Behan's Island - An Irish Sketchbook, the king's three sons set off to find the source of the "heavenly music" heard throughout the country. Steered by three generations of old men through a long tunnel, advised to mount a stallion at the other end, and warned about a ferocious giant, youngest son Art discovers the beautiful harpist-singer. To break the spell that imprisons her, Art must defeat a giant in a deadly hide-and-seek game. Behan's rich retelling, also found in Jane Yolen's Favorite Folktales from around the World (1986), begs to be read aloud. Greenaway medalist Lynch's handsome paintings are reminiscent of such early illustrators as Rackham. Full of drama, emotion and magic, they make this story more accessible to children." (Linda Perkins

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Brendan Behan Brendan Behan took American by storm in the late 1950's, early 1960's. Here was a young man thought to be f ram a working class background, an I.R.A. man, a man who was imprisoned for his politics, a gifted writer, a legendary drinker, a wit and a "character" who might just say the wrong thing on live television. Here was the quintessential Irishman never at a loss for words: TV host: "Do you hate policemen?" Behan: "I don't hate anybody, but I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse." But here too was a young man who died a young man. It is true that Behan's father Stephen was a housepainter, but he was also a housepainter who spoke French and Latin and one who had studied for the Catholic priesthood. It was Stephen Behan's practice to read to his sons and step sons from Dickens, Zola, and Galsworthy. Literacy, language and music were a rich inheritance Brendan received from his father. His mother, Kathleen Kearney, came from a family of shop and land owners. In fact the family resided in a flat in a row of flats in Dublin owned by Kathleen's mother. His mother and grandmother brought Irish history, song and ballad into Brendan's formation along with socialism and rebel ideals. Brendan's grandmother displayed pictures of the Bishop of Dublin and Karl Marx on her wall, harbored rebels on the run, and, in fact, was arrested in England and served three years on an explosives charge.

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BRENDAN BEHAN (Dublin 9 February 1923 - Dublin 20 March 1964) LIFE AND WORKS: Born from a catholic Irish family of working men. Before becoming a writer he makes many jobs among which the workman and the whitewasher. At the age of 16 he's arrested in Liverpool because he had with himself explosive for IRA - all his family has more or less tied connection with IRA, also his grandmother was found with explosive in her shopping bag - and is sent in a Borstal, reformatory, in Suffolk for 18 months, experience that he will tell in the autobiographic novel Borstal Boy, 1958 . After having been released he still re-enters in the IRA and he is arrested again: he is condemned to 14 years to serve in Mountjoy Jail for having shot a policeman, but he will be released after 4 years. He lives for some time in Paris but he returns to Dublin in 1950. The play Quare Fellow, 1956 , reach a large success at the Pike Theatre in Dublin but is with the representation of 1956 at the Joan Littlewood's Royal Theatre in Stratford, London that he obtains a large reputation thanks also to a series of interviews for the BBC (in which he was evidently drunk). In 1958 he publishes The hostage, 1958

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