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08:04, Saturday, January 26, 2008 (in Ireland) Search DublinTourist.com: DublinTourist.com IrishTourist.com Accommodation Dublin Hotels ... Holiday Suggestions Local Guides Dublin Galway Cork Kerry ... Self-Catering Destination: Antrim Belfast City Armagh Carlow Cavan Clare Cork City Cork County Derry City Derry County Donegal Down Dublin Fermanagh Galway City Galway County Kerry Kildare Kilkenny City Kilkenny County Laois Leitrim Limerick City Limerick County Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Shannon Airport Sligo Tipperary Tyrone Waterford City Waterford County Westmeath Wexford Wicklow Dates: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1 night 2 nights 3 nights 4 nights 5 nights 6 nights 7 nights 8 nights 9 nights 10 nights 11 nights 12 nights 13 nights 14 nights Guests: 1 person 2 people 3 people 4 people 5 people 6 people 7 people 8 people Brendan Behan Biography Brendan Behan (1923-1964) was born in the Holles Street Hospital in Dublin. Before his becoming a writer he had many different jobs, the most well-known of these being his career as a house-painter. At the age of sixteen he was arrested in Liverpool, England while carrying explosives for the I.R.A. and sentenced to go to "Borstal" (a boys prison) for eighteen months, an experience that would form the basis of his novel "Borstal Boy". After his release he re-joined the Irish Republican Army and was again arrested, receiving a fourteen year sentence for shooting at a policeman. He served only four years. His play, "The Quare Fellow" received immediate recognition when it first appeared in the tiny Pike Theatre in Dublin. It was late staged by Joan Littlewod in London and Brendan became famous. He published stories and poems in The

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These few jokes have been attributed to the wise cracking of Brendan Behan, who could doubt that. This is a true story of the late Irish author Brendan Behan who one night collapsed in a diabetic coma in a Dublin street. It was at a time when he was at the height of his drunken notoriety and passes-by naturally thought he was dead drunk. They took him to the nearby surgery of one of Dublin's most fashionable and respected doctors. The doctor decided to take a cardiograph and, somewhat nervous of his patient, thought to humor him. He explained the workings of the cardiograph needle as it registered the faint heartbeats of the very sick and semiconscious Brendan. "That needle there is writing down your pulses, Mr. Behan, and I suppose, in its own way, it is probably the most important thing you have ever written." To which Behan replied: "Aye, and it's straight from me heart, too." Brendan Behan, late Irish author, was the soul of courtesy, but there were times when he could give back as good as he got. Brendan and a friend were emerging from the Long Hall in Dublin during the Christmas season, and Brendan had the misfortune to bump into a lady laden with parcels, the result being to scatter her parcels all over the pavement. Brendan promptly stooped to recover them from among the feet of the passers-by and restore them to her arms, but her ladyship's temper was not satisfied. "I'd have you know," she declared angrily, "that my husband's a detective, and, if he was here, he'd take ye!"

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Search the site: powered by FreeFind // Where you place this code is where the random proverb will be displayed. document.write(ideas[rand(ideas.length)]) BRENDAN BEHAN PLAYWRIGHT AND AUTHOR Behan was born in Dublin on 9 February 1923. His father was a house painter who had been imprisoned as a republican towards the end of the Civil War, and from an early age Behan was steeped in Irish history and patriotic ballads; however, there was also a strong literary and cultural atmosphere in his home. The United Irishman . When the IRA launched a bombing campaign in England in 1939, Behan was trained in explosives, but was arrested the day he landed in Liverpool. In February 1940 he was sentenced to three years' Borstal detention. He spent two years in a Borstal in Suffolk, making good use of its excellent library. In 1942, back in Dublin, Behan fired at a detective during an IRA parade and was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. Again he broadened his education, becoming a fluent Irish speaker. During his first months in Mountjoy prison, Sean O Faolain published Behan's description of his Borstal experiences in The Bell Behan was released in 1946 as part of a general amnesty and returned to painting. He would serve other prison terms, either for republican activity or as a result of his drinking, but none of such length. For some years Behan concentrated on writing verse in Irish. He lived in Paris for a time before returning in 1950 to Dublin, where he cultivated his reputation as one of the more rambunctious figures in the city's literary circles.

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Brendan Behan Biography Brendan Behan , the Irish playwright and author, was born in Dublin on 9 February 1923 He left school at the age of 13 and had many jobs. At that time, he joined the Irish Republican Army , which was outlawed. Behan spent much of the 1940s in reform school and prison Having been convicted of carrying explosives in 1939 in Liverpool, he was sentenced to a "Borstal", i.e. a boys prison, for eighteen months , and there he began writing. Later on he was sentenced to fourteen years for shooting at a policeman. His observations of prison life became the stuff for "The Quare Fellow", a play about the hours preceding a hanging. It was produced first in the Pike Theatre in Dublin, then, in 1956, in London. "The play was a statement on the condition of the outcast and the emotions excited by barbaric revenge, rather than a piece of anti-capital-punishment propaganda" (MS Encarta).

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Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Behan, Brendan Francis' Printer Friendly 761,002,056 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia Behan, Brendan Francis 0.03 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0) Irish writer and dramatist, born in Dublin and educated by the Christian Brothers until the age of 14. Behan's extended family included many talented musicians and writers as well as Republican activists. An important figure of both controversy and literary brilliance, Behan is best known for his autobiography Borstal Boy (1958), based on his experiences of prison and knowledge of the workings of the IRA . These themes are revisited in his play The Quare Fellow (1954), and tragicomedy The Hostage (1958), first written in Gaelic as An Giall . Behan's other output included poetry in Gaelic, radio plays, and some late volumes of reminiscence and anecdote, notably Brendan Behan's New York The Hostage for the London stage which imparted to it a strong music-hall sensibility, which includes song and dance. After living a hard life of drinking and being a famous figure of the Dublin literary and pub scene, Behan died young and, many believe, before his best work could be produced.

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Brendan Behan Life Fianna, The Voice of Ireland Wolfe Tone Weekly and The United Irishman The Bell , June 1942); transferred to Arbour Hill, then Curragh after sentencing; learned Irish from native-speaker Republicans and read voraciously; wrote lost play, The Landlady ; drafted The Quare Fellow Gretna Green (1950); radio plays, Moving Out (1952) and A Garden Party Irish Press , 1954-56, producing pieces later published as Hold Your Hour and Have Another The Scarperer (1966), a crime story, serialised in The Irish Times in 1953 (publ. posthum. 1966); submitted The Quare Fellow (dealing with prison execution of Bernard Kirwan) to the Abbey, then Sally Travers at the Gate, who rejected it but recommended to Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift of Pike Theatre, Dublin [fnd. 1953], premier 19 Nov. 1954, six month run; m. Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, then working as a clerk in the Board of Works, 1955; The Quare Fellow The Big House Borstal Boy An Giall (Damer 16 June 1958) The Hostage (Theatre Royal, 14 Oct 1958), with elaborate overlay of contemporary reference adapted to taste of English audience; Behan horrified by changes when sober enough to appreciate them; tried for drunken disorder in Irish small town, and insisted on the hearing in Irish, March 1959;

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The Playwrights Database Search for a Playwright : a b c d ... z To purchase any of the published plays by Brendan Behan click on one of the bookstore links below. doollee receives a small commission on purchases which helps towards running costs and keeps the site free to all AbeBooks.com AbeBooks.com Internet Theatre Bookshop amazon.com ... amazon.ca Biography of Brendan Behan Brendan Behan was born in Dublin in 1923. Behan left school at fourteen but spent two two years in Borstal and a further four (1942-46) in prison for political activities. Out of these experiences came his autobiography, Borstal Boy (1958), and his first stage play, The Quare Fellow (1954). His first radio plays were broadcast in Ireland in 1952 and he was writing a column for the Irish Press in 1954; but it was with the enormous success of Joan Littlewood's London productions of The Quare Fellow (1956) and The Hostage(in 1958), combined with Behan's much publicised drinking bouts, that he achieved international fame. A third play, Richard's Cork Leg, was left almost complete at his death in 1964 and was edited and directed by Alan Simpson for the 1972 Dublin Theatre Festival. james miller web doollee.com

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EESE 4/1995 - 65 Werner Huber (Paderborn) 'Pig's Back' and 'Enchanted Isle': Irish Autobiographers and their I/Is/Ire/land In Seven Winters: Memories of a Dublin Childhood (1942) the Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen remembers the feelings with which she used to consider what appeared to her as the paragon status of her native country and city: [...] my most endemic pride in my own country was, for some years, founded on a mistake: my failing to have a nice ear for vowel sounds, and the Anglo-Irish slurred, hurried way of speaking made me take the words "Ireland" and "island" to be synonymous. Thus, all other countries quite surrounded by water took (it appeared) their generic name from ours. It seemed fine to live in a country that was a Prototype. England, for instance, was "an ireland" (or, sub-Ireland)-an imitation. Then I learned that England was not even "an ireland," having failed to detach herself from the flanks of Scotland and Wales. Vaguely, as a Unionist child, I conceived that our politeness to England must be a form of pity. In the same sense, I took Dublin to be the model of cities, of which there were imitations scattered over the world. (Bowen 1971, 12) This equation based on a case of mistaken etymology presents an interesting reversal of perspective, as much postcolonial as it is ironic. Not only does it reverse the structural relationship of centre vs. margin, but, conceit-like, it also opens up the way for a host of associations regarding the "island of Ireland." From an etymological perspective it appears

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