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Brendan Behan (1923–1964)

Autor/a de Borstal Boy

35+ obres 2,344 Membres 34 Ressenyes 4 preferits

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Brendan Behan was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1923. He came from a family of rebels. His father was in prison because of IRA activities when Behan was born, and his uncle Peadar Kearney was the author of A Soldiers Song, the song of rebellion that was to become the country's national anthem. Not mostra'n més surprisingly, Behan became a rebel himself, joining Fianna Eirann, a youth organization that he referred to as the Republican Boy Scouts, at the age of 9 and transferring to the IRA when he was just fourteen. When he was 16, Behan was arrested for the possession of explosives while in Liverpool, England. Apparently he had been sent there as part of a plot to blow up the battleship King George V. Behan spent 3 years in an English reform school, an experience that later became the basis for the autobiographical novel Borstal Boy. When he was released in 1942, Behan was sent back to Ireland, where he rejoined the IRA and, in less than a year found himself under arrest again. This time the charge was firing at two police officers, for which he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was released, however, in 1946 as part of a general amnesty. Upon leaving prison, Behan worked as a house painter and a seaman. He also began writing, initially as a freelance journalist and later as a playwright. His best-known works are his plays The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, comedy-dramas that deal with the subjects Behan knew best-Dublin and the IRA. Behan also wrote Brendan Behan's Ireland: An Irish Sketchbook, Brendan Behan's New York, The Scarperer, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Richard's Cork Leg, and After the Wake. Behan died in 1964, at age 41, of a combination of alcoholism, jaundice, and diabetes. After Behan's death, Borstal Boy was adapted for the theatre by Frank McMahon. The resulting production won a Tony award and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best play of 1969-70 season. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Brendan Behan

Borstal Boy (1958) 942 exemplars
Confessions of an Irish Rebel (1965) 276 exemplars
Behan Complete Plays (1978) 201 exemplars
The Hostage (1958) — Autor — 131 exemplars
Brendan Behan's New York (1964) 100 exemplars
After the Wake (1981) 82 exemplars
Hold Your Hour and Have Another (1963) 76 exemplars
The King of Ireland's Son (1996) 75 exemplars
The Scarperer (1954) 46 exemplars
Richard's Cork Leg (1973) 32 exemplars
Borstal Boy: An Adapted Play (1964) — Original author — 22 exemplars

Obres associades

Read With Me (1965) — Col·laborador — 129 exemplars
Seven Plays of the Modern Theatre (1962) — Col·laborador — 124 exemplars
Great Irish Detective Stories (1993) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Col·laborador — 84 exemplars
Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays (1969) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing (1996) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
Five Modern Plays — Autor — 1 exemplars

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Visceral and realistic, these plays are often autobiographical and portray the life of Behan's fellow men in all their distress and glory.
 
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jwhenderson | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Aug 26, 2022 |
Grateful that this was something much different than standard prison fare and about the potential for humane interaction and maturation. Some great stories within the overall story, as well.
 
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shaundeane | Hi ha 16 ressenyes més | Sep 13, 2020 |
Behan's memoir depicts his time as an underage IRA man held up and imprisoned in the UK, first awaiting his judgement, then in a young offender's institution out in the countryside.
 
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mari_reads | Hi ha 16 ressenyes més | Sep 7, 2019 |

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Obres
35
També de
8
Membres
2,344
Popularitat
#10,936
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
34
ISBN
107
Llengües
10
Preferit
4

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