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Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners. [1] From a technical standpoint, the novel is chiefly ...
The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems ...
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Borstal Boy is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Peter Sheridan, based on the 1958 autobiographical novel of the same name by Brendan Behan.. Plot. In 1941, 16-year-old IRA volunteer Brendan Behan (Shawn Hatosy) is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War.
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Borstal Boy, autobiographical work by Irish writer 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.
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Sep 1, 2004 · Borstal Boy (Nonpareil Books) Paperback – September 1, 2004. A teenage volunteer in the IRA, a fanatical believer, Brendan Behan was arrested with explosives at the age of 17 and spent three years locked in a British juvenile borstal.
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Dec 8, 2000 · Borstal Boy: Directed by Peter Sheridan. With Shawn Hatosy, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney, Patricia Leventon. Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Borstal Boy. Hardcover – January 1, 1958. This miracle of autobiography and prison literature "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.'. I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . .
- Brendan Behan
