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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 .
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Mar 1, 2002 · Rent Borstal Boy on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. The sentimentality of Borstal Boy feels false in contrast to the gritty life of the actual Brendan Behan. Brendan Behan, a 16-year-old ...
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