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Borstal Boy. Brendan Behan. David R. Godine Publisher, 1958 - Biography & Autobiography - 386 pages. 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?
Borstal Boy. Brendan Behan. Arrow Books, 1990 - Biography & Autobiography - 372 pages. 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.
A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom, several member states of the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. In India, such a detention centre is known as a borstal school . Borstals were run by HM Prison Service and were intended to reform young offenders. The word originated from the first such institution ...
Borstal Boy is the autobiography that resulted from his experience. It belongs both to the genre of prison literature and to the long history of Irish-English relations, or animosities.
Sep 1, 2004 · Borstal Boy (Nonpareil Books) Paperback – September 1, 2004. by Brendan Behan (Author), Benedict Kiely (Afterword) 4.4 504 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. 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 ...
- Brendan Behan
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
Mar 22, 2001 · Build 4c546e5 (7351) Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East Anglia, where he is forced to live with his would-be enemies, an experience that ...
