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Brendan Behan S Island
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Author : Brendan Behan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Brendan Behan S Island written by Brendan Behan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Ireland categories.
From the snug of the 'Shaky Man' (probably the nearest pub to Guinness Brewery in Dublin) Brendan Behan take us on a tour of his native country. Not very much topographical information is imparted perhaps and even the Georgian architecture for which Dublin is deservedly famous is scarcely mentioned: 'Good architecture, ' Mr. Behan reports as architect friend as saying 'is invisible.' Mr Behan is less interested in things than in people and a galaxy of characters and stories about the inhabitants of that Augustan city cross his pages. But Brendan has been outside Dublin from time to time as London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Montreal, San Francisco and Mexico City can well witness. His investigations among the aborigines of those famed cities are not his concern in this book, however: those anthropological investigations must await another occasion for the telling. Here he regales us with his views on Dublin, the North of Ireland, Galway and the Aran Islands and the counties of the south - always with an eye on the people and their habits rather than on the places themselves. He was accompanied on many expeditions by Paul Hogarth, whose drawings complement the spirit of the text as no other artist's could have done. Intellectuality stimulating, Mr. Behan discourses on the evils of drinking potheen, the mores of Limerick girls, storytellers in the last bastion of Gaelic culture on the Aran Islands, the Irish middle-classes and what he calls 'the Anglo-Irish Horse-Protestants.' Enlivened with song, poem, story, and Paul Hogarth's drawings, this book tells a lot about Ireland but tells us even more about that fascinating human Behan.
Brendan Behan S Island
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Author : Brendan Behan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Brendan Behan S Island
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Author : Brendan Behan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Brendan Behan S Island
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Author : Brendan Behan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Borstal Boy
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Author : Brendan Behan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-07-28
Borstal Boy written by Brendan Behan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA, he was tried and sent to reform school. He was sixteen years old. The world he entered was brutal and coldly indifferent. Conditions were primitive, and violence simmered just below the surface. Yet Brendan Behan found something more positive than hate in Borstal: friendship, solidarity and healing flashes of kindness. Extraordinarily vivid, fluent, and moving, this is a superb and unforgettable piece of writing. Borstal Boy was adapted into a film in 2000.
Brendan Behan S New York
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Author : Brendan Behan
language : en
Publisher: London : Hutchinson
Release Date : 1964
Brendan Behan S New York written by Brendan Behan and has been published by London : Hutchinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with New York (N.Y.) categories.
Rambling name-dropping anecdotes that describe an Irishman's experiences in the neighborhoods of "the most exciting city in the world". Many original drawings.
The King Of Ireland S Son
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Author : Padraic Colum
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1944
The King Of Ireland S Son written by Padraic Colum and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Fairy tales categories.
Chronicles the adventures of the King of Ireland's eldest and wildest son, describing how he encounters an enchanter's daughter, the king of the cats, Gilly of the goat-skin, and numerous others.
Brendan Behan
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Author : Michael O'Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
Release Date : 2000-10-10
Brendan Behan written by Michael O'Sullivan and has been published by Roberts Rinehart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hailed as the new O'Casey by Irish critics in 1958, Behan is now often portrayed as the archetypal Irishman and spectacular drunk. Behind the myth lies the more compelling story of a writer who was never able to fully harness his larger-than-life personality and talent.
Letters Of Brendan Behan
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Author : E. Mikhail
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1991-11-27
Letters Of Brendan Behan written by E. Mikhail and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-11-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Behan's friends and relatives, and people in his literary circle, have claimed he was not a prolific letter-writer. Even Behan himself has been quoted as saying, "Whoever writes my biography will get no help from my letters. I never write any." But in fact there is a substantial body of letters to and from Behan, who not only corresponded with seventeen periodicals but wrote to relatives, friends, IRA colleagues, civil servants, theatrical directors, publicans, and complete strangers. As in the case of Oscar Wilde, the search for Behan's letters has been hampered by their dispersal to widely scattered and unexpected places. The surviving letters that Mikhail was able to locate, however, proved well worth the trouble it took to uncover them. In addition to providing a vital record of one of the giants of Irish literature, Behan's letters -- especially those written without thought of publication -- give a far better sense of his exuberant verbal style than his plays or poetry. Mikhail introduces each letter and explains the circumstances in which it was written. He also annotates the letters, elucidating difficulties, noting the location and ownership of the letters whenever possible, and giving biographical information about the correspondents. The Letters of Brendan Behan also includes four poems that appear here for the first time, as well as extracts from early writings never before published. Numerous letters to editors, refused publication because of their outspokenness, are published here for the first time, and others, previously cut or censored, now appear in their original form. For anyone interested in Irish literature or contemporary drama -- and especially for readers and scholars of Behan's work -- The Letters of Brendan Behan is an invaluable collection.
Brendan Behan
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Author : Ulick O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Abacus
Release Date : 2014-09-18
Brendan Behan written by Ulick O'Connor and has been published by Abacus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow , The Hostage and Borstal Boy . But Behan drowned his talent in a whiskey bottle and became the caricature of an Irish stage drunk, clowning his way with oaths and stories between bars in Dublin, London, Paris and New York. Written in association with his widow, his mother and others of his family and friends, and old IRA comrades, this is a biography of Brendan Behan.