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Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Brendan Behan's Island written by Brendan Behan and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Brendan Behan's New York written by Brendan Behan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921052
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Borstal Boy written by Brendan Behan and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ." 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, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brendan Behan's New York written by Brendan Behan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulick O'Connor
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349140960
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Brendan Behan written by Ulick O'Connor and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow , The Hostage and Borstal Boy . But Behan drowned his talent in a whiskey bottle and became the caricature of an Irish stage drunk, clowning his way with oaths and stories between bars in Dublin, London, Paris and New York. Written in association with his widow, his mother and others of his family and friends, and old IRA comrades, this is a biography of Brendan Behan.
Author : Frank McMahon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy written by Frank McMahon and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play about Behan's early life in the Irish Republican Army. Winner of the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.
Author : Cian T. McMahon
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479808792
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book The Coffin Ship written by Cian T. McMahon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022 Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself. Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called “coffin ships” they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants’ own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every stage of the journey—including the treacherous weeks at sea—these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora. Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of a process that left a lasting mark on Irish life at home and abroad. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.
Author : Colin Broderick
Publisher : Lavender Ink
ISBN 13 : 9781944884536
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Writing Irish of New York written by Colin Broderick and published by Lavender Ink. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23 of today's top Irish-American authors provide personal accounts of how they found their voices in the Big Apple, and editor Colin Broderick provides background essays on Brendan Behan, Maeve Brennan, Frank McCourt, and other Irish-American writers of the past.
Author : Kathleen Behan
Publisher : Poolbeg PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9781853713378
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Mother of All the Behans written by Kathleen Behan and published by Poolbeg PressLtd. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of an extraordinary woman, the redoubtable Kathleen Behan, who has presided over one of the most brilliant and controversial families of modern Irelandz This biography tells a dramatic, sometimes tragic and often very funny story which embraces almost a century of Irish history. Kathleen's first husband and her brother had been active in Easter Week, and afterwards she became housekeeper to Maud Gonne MacBride in her house on St. Stephen's Green, where she was visited by Yeats and Joyce. Kathleen's later marriage to Stephan Behan produced a large family, including Brendan, the famous post-war Irish writer and playwright, and Dominic and Brian Behan.
Author : Richard Seaver
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374273782
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Tender Hour of Twilight written by Richard Seaver and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal account by the late founder of Arcade Publishing documents his experiences in the literary world of the mid-20th century, describing his efforts to overcome U.S. censorship laws and introduce readers to important written works.
Author : Stoney McGurrin
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644624524
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book And That's How It All Started written by Stoney McGurrin and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoney McGurrin in his debut book, brings us on the adventure of his life time. Having spent months in hospital as a four year old, where he almost lost his arm; only to have it saved by a famous French surgeon Dr. Chance, he left Leitrim as a teenager on ship across the Atlantic to New York City. The stories are exciting, sad, happy and true; from 1941 to the present, from pencil to paper. "Very informative as far as history of Irish people making it in New York City. Great to learn of how civil rights has made us better people. His traveling south, taught me to appreciate what I have today." - Ann Hernandez, New York, USA "A great read, the author captures glimpses of life of bygone eras, all the while never short of good characters and incredible situations. I really enjoyed the book." - Kieran Moran, The Bronx, New York, USA "A roller coaster read. Should be on the curriculum in high schools. This book would be banned in Ireland in the 1960s. The author would be in the good company of Oscar Wilde, Salman Rushdie and Brendan Behan." - Michael D. McAndrew, Journalist Midwest Radio, Mayo, Ireland "My wife and I read it in bed. We laughed, we cried; insights into sex, drugs, crime, hard work, history and politics. We did not sleep the night we read it. We waited a long time for a book like this, well done to Stoney and John for this production." Pat and Phil Burke, Co. Tipperary, Ireland "Entertaining, educational, enlightening, ecstatic, erotic and enjoyable!" - Lizzy Tabor, Massachusetts, USA 'I've known Stoney for over 40 years - and over that time he has regaled me with his stories and memories many times. It's great to see them documented on the printed page - captured in time. Stories that take us from Dowra, Co Leitrim across to the United States - stories of innocence and ignorance, of hurt and healing, of grit, determination and success - told in Stoney's inimitable voice." - Carl Corcoran, Veteran Broadcaster, Dublin, Ireland
Author : Tom Phelan
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 150119710X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It written by Tom Phelan and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” —Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan’s We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s. Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working with his wise and demanding father as he sought to wrest a livelihood from a farm that was often wet, muddy, and back-breaking. It was a time before rural electrification, the telephone, and indoor plumbing; a time when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; a time when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were hatched in the kitchen cupboard; a time when the Church exerted enormous control over Ireland. We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It recounts Tom’s upbringing in an isolated, rural community from the day he was delivered by the local midwife. With tears and laughter, it speaks to the strength of the human spirit in the face of life’s adversities.
Author : Malcolm Braly
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176103
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On the Yard written by Malcolm Braly and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison’s flourishing black market in drugs and sex, and of Paul, wracked with guilt for the murder of his wife and desperate for some kind of redemption. At once brutal and tender, clear-eyed and rueful, On the Yard presents the penitentiary not as an exotic location, an exception to everyday reality, but as an ordinary place, one every reader will recognize, American to the core.
Author : Edoardo Albinati
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374717451
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Catholic School written by Edoardo Albinati and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat. It is this environment, the halls of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject. His experience at the school, reflections on his adolescence, and thoughts on the forces that produced contemporary Italy are painstakingly and thoughtfully rendered, producing a remarkable blend of memoir, coming-of-age novel, and true-crime story. Along with indelible portraits of his teachers and fellow classmates—the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max—Albinati also gives us his nuanced reflections on the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity.
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Quare Fellow written by Brendan Behan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780416628906
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Hostage written by Brendan Behan and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragi-operette i 3 akter
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773508880
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Brendan Behan written by Brendan Behan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A thoroughly annotated collection of those letters by controversial Irish playwright Behan (1923-64) that have come to light so far. Also includes some unpublished poems and early writings, and letters to the editor that were rejected. Acidic paper. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
