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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.
Neville Heath, a once infamous 1940s British murderer, was incarcerated, before he was convicted of murder, with Brendan Behan at Hollesley Bay borstal in Suffolk. Brendan Behan was arrested in Liverpool, aged 16, with explosives and the intention of blowing up the Liverpool dock. The first section of the book covers his period on remand in ...
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Sep 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. There he begins to wonder, who’s really the enemy?
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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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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.
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.
This mature Behan divides Borstal Boy into three parts of unequal length. Part One covers his two-month stay at Walton Prison in lengthy detail; Part Two summarizes briefly his stay at Feltham; Part Three lovingly describes Behan's experience at Hollesley Bay Borstal. In this paper I argue that the tripartite division
