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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 ...
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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 ...
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.
Jan 10, 2019 · Borstal Boy makes me laugh out loud and also reminds me of my time in the British Royal Navy. One of the young Brendan Behan's fellow prisoners in the English young peoples' prison is a sailor named Charlie. The book shows some of the horrors of prison life but also a lot of the camaraderie that goes on whenever boys get together.
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Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden. 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 when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in ...
