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- borstal (ˈbɔːstəl) n 1. (Sociology) (formerly in Britain) an informal name for an establishment in which offenders aged 15 to 21 could be detained for corrective training.
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185635608. 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 ...
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Structure and Meaning. by RICHARD BROWN. STILL IN PRINT after over 25 years, Borstal Boy is well on its way to being regarded as a modern Irish classic, for the glory of its prose and its narrator's exuberant spirit. Yet following the spate of reviews which greeted its first appearance (1958), Brendan Behan's masterpiece has received little ...
- Richard Brown
- 1985
Borstal Boy is Behan’s forthright account of his life as a teenage inmate or Young Prisoner ( YP) in the English penal system. Each of the book’s three parts depicts his life in...
1 Borstal offenders were always referred to as ‘inmates’ or ‘offenders’ and never prisoners. They served a ‘period of detention’ rather than a sentence. This form of words was laid down by the founders of the system in Britain and was strictly adhered to both there and in Ireland. Institutional power and the Irish borstal boy, 1906 ...
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...
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 ...
