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	Famous Irish Lives - Brendan Behan
		Behan was born in Dublin on 9 February 1923.
		Behan was released in 1946 as part of a general amnesty and returned to painting.
		The first outcome was Brendan Behan's Island (1962), a readable collection of anecdotes and opinions in which it was apparent that Behan had moved away from the republican extremism of his youth.
	www.irelandseye.com /irish/people/famous/behan.shtm (0 words)

	The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Behan was born in Dublin and lived in one of the several tenements that his grandmother owned.
		Brendan shared the same views as his parents and became an active member of the IRA at an early age.
		Behan uses humorous and sarcastic dialogue to illustrate the "dehumanizing consequence of ritual, legalized murder." (Brannigan, 82) He also discusses the hypocrisy of a Christian state that preaches the salvation of sinners while committing them to their death.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~sschreib/autumn_02/investigations/behan.html (618 words)

	Learn more about Brendan Behan in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brendan Behan (9 February, 1923-20 March, 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English.
		Behan was one of the most successful Irish dramatists of the 20th century.
		In 1939, Behan was arrested in Liverpool in possession of explosives for use in a planned IRA bombing campaign.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/br/brendan_behan.html (638 words)

	Amazon.de: Brendan Behan: A Life: English Books: Michael O'Sullivan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923-64) was adored unconditionally by his beloved Granny, endowed with a great love of the written word by his father, and inspired to embrace republicanism and the IRA by his mother.
		Brendan Behan was no literary giant, but he deserves better than this -- poorly and pompously written, indifferently edited, riddled with factual errors (outrageous, considering the research), and lacking in perception and depth.
		Behan isn't important enough to be on the receiving end of a top-flight definitive biography, but it's too damned bad that this is as close as he'll come.
	www.amazon.de /Brendan-Behan-Life-Michael-OSullivan/dp/1568331878 (813 words)

	Brendan Behan at AllExperts
		His brother, Dominic Behan, was also a renowned songwriter, whilst another sibling, Brian Behan, was a prominent radical political activist and public speaker, actor, author and playwright; Brendan believed Brian was 'a traitor to the cause' and it is notable that Brendan's dying wish was to have his brother Brian shot.
		In 1939, Behan was arrested in Liverpool in possession of explosives for use in the IRA S-Plan bombing campaign.
		Behan is also mentioned in the Pogues song "Thousands are Sailing" with reference to the experience of Irish immigrants in New York: "And in Brendan Behan's footsteps, I danced up and down the street".
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/br/brendan_behan.htm (1123 words)

	Brendan Behan - The Hostage - THe Borstal Boy - Ireland Literature Guide
		Behan spent most of the years from 1939 to 1946 in English and Irish penal institutions on political charges.
		Brendan Behan was born in Dublin in 1923.
		Brendan Behan (1923-1964) was born in the Holles Street Hospital in Dublin.
	www.irelandliteratureguide.com /brendan_behan.html (0 words)

	Brendan Behan Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		At Behan's birth, his father was in a British compound because of involvement in the Irish uprising of 1916-1922.
		Behan left school at the age of 14 and worked as a house painter.
		In 1939 Behan was arrested on a sabotage mission in England and sentenced to three years in Borstal in a reform school for attempting to blow up a battleship in Liverpool harbour.
	www.litweb.net /biography/521/Brendan_Behan.html (791 words)

	Brendan Behan his jokes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
	users.bigpond.net.au /kirwilli/jokes/Behan.htm (506 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Behan is also mentioned in the Pogues song Thousands are Sailing (written by Philip Chevron) with reference to the experience of Irish immigrants in New York: "And in Brendan Behan's footsteps, I danced up and down the street".
		Brendan Behan is also mentioned in the Damien Dempsey song Jar Song, which includes the lyrics, "Brendan Behan was a friend of mine / He loved the bars and he drink cheap wine / Get outta his mind with a lad and lass / He'd ride them both and then go to mass [1]".
		Behan's prisoner song The Auld Triangle, from his play The Quare Fella (this term being prison slang for a prisoner condemned to be hanged), has been recorded by groups including the Pogues and the Dropkick Murphys.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Brendan_Behan (1243 words)

	Behan - Biography (E) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Behan spent much of the 1940s in reform school and prison.
		Behan's plays are marked by the use of "earthy dialogue and trenchant humour", and carried on the tradition of the urban drama created by Sean O'Casey.
		His prose works include "Borstal Boy" (1958), an account of his term in the boys reform school, "Brendan Behan's Island" (1962), a collection of Irish anecdotes, "Hold Your Hour and Have Another" (1964), "The Scarperer" (1964), and "Confessions of an Irish Rebel" (1965).
	members.aol.com /gwagner377/mikihome/behan-e.htm (241 words)

	Amazon.com: Brendan Behan: A Life: Books: Michael O'Sullivan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923-64) was adored unconditionally by his beloved Granny, endowed with a great love of the written word by his father, and inspired to embrace republicanism and the IRA by his mother.
		Brendan Behan was no literary giant, but he deserves better than this -- poorly and pompously written, indifferently edited, riddled with factual errors (outrageous, considering the research), and lacking in perception and depth.
		Behan isn't important enough to be on the receiving end of a top-flight definitive biography, but it's too damned bad that this is as close as he'll come.
	www.amazon.com /Brendan-Behan-Life-Michael-OSullivan/dp/1568331878 (1424 words)

	Brendan Behan
		Interspersed with tales of brutality are anecdotes about dramatic and musical pastimes and Behan's gardening and handicraft activities.
		In this folktale from Brendan Behan's Island - An Irish Sketchbook, the king's three sons set off to find the source of the "heavenly music" heard throughout the country.
		Behan's rich retelling, also found in Jane Yolen's Favorite Folktales from around the World (1986), begs to be read aloud.
	www.actorsbone.com /Library/Authors/BehanBrendan.htm (429 words)

	Brendan Behan
		Brendan Behan was born in Dublin and lived his childhood in the slums of the city.
		Behan attended Catholic schools until the age of 14, when he abandoned studies and then worked as a house painter.
		Ironically Behan once observed, that the man with a big bomb is a statesman, while the man with a small bomb is a terrorist.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /behan.htm (0 words)

	Brendan Behan Pub Jamaica Plain \| Yelp
		I'm not picky, the Behan let a bunch of us spread out all over a table with a huge birthday cake.
		And that pretty much defined it for me. The Behan's a place where you can drink beer, meet people from New Zealand, don't need to change your clothing after a rugby game and can find a cozy corner to make out in.
		The Behan used to be better than it is now.
	www.yelp.com /biz/4HnToN8bByaPRTTehukvXw (2110 words)

	Brendan Behan Biography - DublinTourist.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brendan Behan (1923-1964) was born in the Holles Street Hospital in Dublin.
		It was late staged by Joan Littlewod in London and Brendan became famous.
		Brendan died at the Meath Hospital on March 20th, 1964, just months after his wife Beatrice had given birth to their first child, a daughter, Blanaid Orla Marghead Behan.
	www.dublintourist.com /literary_dublin/brendan_behan.shtml (402 words)

	Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy
		Behan spent three years of his life holed up in one when he was caught in 1939, at age 16, carrying a suitcase full of explosive devices in Liverpool.
		Behan was able to get work as a painter because of an apprenticeship in Ireland.
		Behan seemed to think most of them were reasonably fair -- although their word was often law because it was hard to get the governor's (warden's) ear.
	www.rambles.net /behan_borstal58.html (724 words)

	Brendan Behan Biography and Summary
		Although Brendan Behan was the major new voice of Irish drama in the 1950s, for most of his contemporaries, his life was better known than his work.
		Brendan Behan was the most important new Irish dramatist of the 1950s.
		Brendan Francis Behan(Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin)(February 9, 1923- March 20, 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English.
	www.bookrags.com /Brendan_Behan (410 words)

	Brendan Behan
		Behan [sic], and was then deported to Ireland, Nov. 1941 [var.
		Augustine Martin, ‘Brendan Behan’, Threshold, 18 [n.d.], pp.22-28.
		Prompt: Behan was prompted to write his play The Quare Fellow by the story of Bernard Kirwan, hanged in 1943 for murdering his brother the previous year.
	www.pgil-eirdata.org /html/pgil_datasets/authors/b/Behan,Brendan/life.htm (1849 words)

	Brendan Behan - Niall Toibin
		Niall Toibin once again becomes Brendan Behan on stage at Dublinâs new HQ Club in the Irish Music Hall of Fame complex for a limited run opening on the 3rd of January 2002.
		In a masterful editing job, Toibin has turned these rare Behan offerings into a string of wildly entertaining sketches performed with the help of Derek Chapman, Tom Murphy, Geraldine Plunkett, and Niallâs daughter Sighle Toibin.
		Brendan Behan â¦assails the audience with anecdotes, songs, poetry and short stories which vary from the hilarious to the touching.
	www.nialltoibin.com /behan.html (270 words)

	The Brendan Behan Pub (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Behan, as it is fondly called by it's many loyal customers, is an authentic Irish pub, with no TVs or pinball machines, truely a talking bar.
		Besides a wide variety of wines, liquors and spirits, there is a large selection of draught and bottled beers, consisting of dark ales, sparkling lagers and rich stouts, including, of course, guinness.
		The Behan also features plays, storytelling, poetry and book readings by some of Ireland's leading contemporary authors, including J.P. Donleavy, Patrick McCabe, Catherine Phil McCarthy, Evan Boland and Michael O'Shiadi, to name but a few.
	www.celticweb.com /behan (186 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Brendan Behan
		Behan, Brendan w/decorations by Beatrice Behan Hold your hour and have another Publisher: London: Hutchinson, 1963 1st ed..
		Behan, Brendan, Illustrated by: Hogarth, Paul Brendan Behan's New York Publisher: Corgi 1966.
		Behan, Brendan Confessions of an Irish Rebel Publisher: Bernard Geis Associates New York, NY 1965.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Brendan_Behan (922 words)

	TravelVoice Journal - Brendan Behan's New York - St Patrick's Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brendan died in 1964, 12 years before I was born, so I'm a disappointment to those who expect personal reminiscences.
		Brendan told the American press that he had a new theory about what happened to the snakes when St Patrick drove them out of Ireland: "They all swam to America and became New York judges." He was then invited to the New Jersey parade and received the key to the city.
		Beatrice reminded Brendan that she was pregnant too, and she was the one he owed loyalty to.
	www.travelvoice.com /story.cfm?id=23 (4188 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Brendan Behan sculpture unveiled today
		This afternoon, Brendan Behan, one of Dublin's great literary figures will be honoured at a ceremony on the Royal Canal on the capital's Northside.
		It is the 80th anniversary of Behan's birth and his family has welcomed the fact that the capital has at last paid tribute to him.
		Podge Behan, the son of Brendan's widow Beatrice, said that it was about time the author was honoured.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/1208/behanb.html (185 words)

	Brendan Behan Biography / Profile
		Brendan Behan (BEE-uhn) emerged as a significant Irish author and playwright during the 1950’s but failed to fulfill that promise in the last six years of his life.
		Deeply committed to Irish nationalism, Stephen Behan had been imprisoned in Kilmainhain Prison for his actions during the Irish Civil War, and Kathleen Behan was consistently outspoken in her support of Irish independence.
		With such a family background, Brendan’s enrollments in the Fianna Eireann at the age of seven and...
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/brendan-behan-9810001395 (125 words)

	Amazon.fr : The King of Ireland's Son: Livres en anglais: Brendan Behan,Patrick Lynch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Originally published in Brendan Behan's Island-An Irish Sketchbook (Random, 1962; o.p.), the text was transcribed from a tape recording of Behan telling the story, adding to the immediacy of the narrative.
		In this folktale from Brendan Behan's Island--An Irish Sketchbook, the king's three sons set off to find the source of the "heavenly music" heard throughout the country.
		Behan's rich retelling, also found in Jane Yolen's Favorite Folktales from around the World (1986), begs to be read aloud.
	www.amazon.fr /King-Irelands-Son-Brendan-Behan/dp/0862646936 (549 words)

	Brendan Behan - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays
		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.
		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.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsB/behan-brendan.html (355 words)

	A Hungry Feeling: The Life and Death of Brendan Behan - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Brendan Behan (1923-1964) was, among other things, a drunkard, an IRA activist, a public nuisance, and an ex-con.
		Brendan Behan (1923-1964) was, among other things, a drunkard, an IRA activist,...
		Brendan Behan (1923-1964) was, among other things, a drunkard,...
	movies.aol.com /movie/a-hungry-feeling-the-life-and-death-of-brendan-behan/1132883/main (212 words)

	Brendan Behan - Encyclopedia.com
		His first play, The Quare Fellow (1956), a grimly comic drama set in the hours preceding a prison hanging, was followed by The Hostage (1958), a song and dance farce set in a brothel.
		Brendan Behan's Island: an Irish Sketch-Book (1962) is a miscellaneous collection.
		Bibliography: See his autobiographical Borstal Boy (1958); biographies by his brother Dominic Behan (1966) and U. O'Connor (1971).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Behan-Br.html (245 words)

	Brendan Behan
		Most book scans from the Wilson collection and some courtesy of Simon Murphy (who's great-granny lived right next door to the Behans in Crumlin, in the 1940s).
		Otherwise, any corrections or images for the use of would be most gratefully received (and credited).
		Remember what Brendan himself had to say: "What you give to the poor, you lend to the Lord." Free DHTML scripts provided by Dynamic Drive.
	brendanbehan.info (260 words)

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