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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]
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 [ edit ] 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 .
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted wh...
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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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Peter Sheridan
- 2000-12-08
Jun 14, 2012 · Borstal Boy stars Shawn Hatosy as Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, who is sent on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second ...
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Mar 22, 2002 · Borstal Boy. For a dozen years of my life, I gazed into the face of Brendan Behan almost nightly. There was an enormous photograph of him on the wall of O'Rourke's Pub on North Avenue, and it didn't take a lip-reader to guess which word began with his upper teeth posed on his lower lip. Drunk and disheveled, he must have been in a late stage of ...
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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 ...
