Shawn Hatosy
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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.
- 342 pp (first edition)
- Hutchinson
- 1958
- Brendan Behan
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.
- 1 March 2000
- Jim Sheridan, Pat Moylan
Dec 8, 2000 · Based on the autobiography of Brendan Behan, a young Irish republican who is sent to a British borstal (reformatory) during World War II. The film explores his political and sexual awakening, his friendship with a warden and a sailor, and his literary career.
- (2.5K)
- Drama, Romance
- Peter Sheridan
- 2000-12-08
Borstal Boy is an autobiographical account of Brendan Behans arrest in Liverpool in 1939 for owning bombmaking material as part of an apparantly unauthorized solo mission to set off bombs for the IRA and subsequent imprisonment.
- (2.8K)
- Paperback
Mar 16, 2011 · 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
Mar 22, 2002 · Roger Ebert criticizes the film for being too tame and sentimental in portraying the young Brendan Behan, the Irish writer and IRA activist. He contrasts the film with Behan's memoir and his own memories of the drunken rebel.
Mar 1, 2002 · Brendan Behan, a 16-year-old Republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second World War. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned...
